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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 
ELWIN R. SANBORN, EDITOR. 
Bepartments : 
MAMMAL 
W. T. Hornanay, Sc. D. 
AQUARIUM 
C. H. TOWNSEND, Sc. D. 
BIRD 
C, WILLIAM BEEBE. 
REPTILE 
RAYMOND L. DITMARS. 
Published Bi-Monthly at the Office of the Society, 
11 Wall Street, New York City. 
Single Numbers, 10 Cents; Yearly, by Mail, 70 Cents. 
MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS. 
Copyright, 1910, by the New York Zoological Society. 
NumBer 42 NOVEMBER, 1910 
Officers of the Society. 
President - 
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN. 
Executive Committee: 
MADISON GRANT, Chairman, 
SAMUEL THORNE, WILLIAM WHITE NILEs, 
LEvI P. MoRTON, WM. PIERSON HAMILTON, 
FrAnNK K. STURGIS. 
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, Ex-Officio, 
General Officers - 
Secretary, MADISON GRANT, 11 WALL STREET. 
Treasurer, PeRcY R. PYNE, 30 PINE STREET. 
Director, WILLIAM T. HORNADAY .D., ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 
Director of the Aquarium, CHARLES H. TOWNSEND Sc.D., BATTERY PaRK. 
JOHN S. BARNES, 
Percy R, PYNE, 
Board of Managers : 
Ex-Officio 
The Mayor of the City of New York - 
The President of the Department of Parks, 
Glass of 1911. Glass of 1912. 
Henry F. Osborn, Levi P. Morton, F. Augustus Schermerhorn, 
William C. Church, Andrew Carnegie, Percy R. Pyne, 
Lispenard Stewart, John L. Cadwalader, George B. Grinnell, 
H. Casimir de Rham, JohnS. Barnes, Jacob H. Schiff, 
Hugh D. Auchincloss, Madison Grant, George C. Clark, 
Charles F. Dieterich, William White Niles, Cleveland H. Dodge, 
James J. Hill, Samuel Thorne, C, Ledyard Blair, 
George F. Baker, Henry A. C. Taylor, Frederick G. Bourne, 
Grant B. Schley, Hugh J. Chisholm, W. Austin Wadsworth, 
James W. Barney, Frank K. Sturgis, Emerson MeMillin, 
Wm. PiersonHamilton, George J. Gould, Anthony R. Kuser 
Robert S. Brewster Ogden Mills 
Officers of the Zoological Park ; 
W. T. Hornapay, Sc. D., Director. 
H. R. MITCHELL - - = - Chief Clerk and Disbursing Officer. 
RAYMOND L. DITMARS - Curator of Reptiles. 
©, WILLIAM BEEBE Curator of Birds. 
W. Rerp Buarr, D.V.S. Veterinarian and Pathologist. 
H. W. MERKEL - = - - Chief Forester and Constructor. 
ELWIN R. SANBORN - - - Editor and Photographer. 
G. M. BEERBOWER - - Civil Engineer. 
W. I. MiTcHELL - - - - Office Assistant. 
Officers of the Aquartum 
CHARLES H. TOWNSEND, Sc.D., Director. 
RAYMOND C, OSBURN, Ph.D. Assistant Director. 
W. I. DENYSE - In Charge of Collections. 
Hon. WILLIAM J. GAYNOR 
Hon. CHARLES B. STOVER 
Glass of 1913. 
ENLARGEMENT OF THE AQUARIUM. 
In the spring of 1910 the Executive Commit- 
tee ordered a revision of the Aquarium plans, 
and Mr. J. Stewart Barney has prepared the ac- 
companying preliminary sketch showing the 
general plan of the Aquarium on the ground, 
first and third floors, with the administration 
offices, lecture hall and library. The proposed 
revision reduces the amount of additional space 
required to be taken from Battery Park, and at 
the same time practically preserves the present 
Aquarium building in its entirety. 
The new building will approximately treble 
the present amount of exhibition space and will 
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be adequate to meet the requirements of the 
enormous crowds which visit the Aquarium. It 
will also afford space for the administrative and 
scientific work which has been forced upon the 
Aquarium as a public museum, and which is now 
carried on under a great strain owing to the 
inadequate facilities. 
The plans shown here are provisional and 
have not yet been passed on by the Committee. 
They will be thoroughly studied and Dr. Town- 
send will be asked to inspect all the existing 
aquariums abroad. The plans will then be put 
in final shape and brought before the Board 
of Estimate and Apportionment. It is needless 
to say that when finished an aquarium con- 
structed along these lines will far outrank any 
existing institutions of its kind. M. G. 
AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 
The Fortieth Anniversary Meeting of the 
American Fisheries Society was held at the New 
York Aquarium on September 27 and 29. On 
the intermediate day, September 28, the Society 
met at the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory. Nearly one hundred members were in at- 
tendance, coming from as far west as Colorado 
and Minnesota. Canada was represented by 
several members, and one was registered from 
Honolulu. 
Among the better known visiting members 
were Dr. Theodore N. Gill, the eminent ichthy- 
ologist of the Smithsonian Institution; Prof. S. 
A. Forbes, Director of the Illinois State Labora- 
tory of Natural History; Dr. B. W. Evermann, 
Chief of the Division of Scientific Inquiry of 
the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries; Prof. Wm. 
Alanson Bryan, College of Hawaii, Honolulu; 
Hon. Kelly Evans, Commissioner of Game and 
Fisheries, Ontario, Canada; Hon. W. E. Mee- 
han, Commissioner of Fisheries of Pennsyl- 
vania; Hon. John W. Titecomb, Commissioner of 
Fisheries of Vermont; Dr. Geo. W. Field, Com- 
missioner of Fisheries and Game of Massachu- 
setts; Dr. T. H. Bean, State Fish Culturist of 
New York, and Hon. Jas. Nevin, Superinten- 
dent of the Wisconsin Fish Commission. 
After the meeting was called to order by the 
president, Hon. Seymour Bower, Superinten- 
dent of the Michigan Fish Commission, the So- 
ciety was welcomed to the Aquarium by the 
Director, Dr. Chas. H. Townsend, who then 
presented an address on The Conservation of 
our Rivers and Lakes. 
The number of papers presented was so large 
that, notwithstanding several were read by title, 
three ful] days were required to cover the pro- 
