738 ZOOLOGICAL 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 
ELWIN R. SANBORN, EpiTor. 
Bepartments : 
MAMMAL BIRD 
W. T. HoRNADAY, Sc. D. C. WILLIAM BEEBE. 
AQUARIUM LEE S. CRANDALL. 
C. H. TOWNSEND, Sc. D. REPTILE 
RAYMOND C. OsBurRn, Ph. D. 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, 1911, by the New York Zoological Society. 
Numper 44 MARCH, 1911 
Officers of the Society. 
President - 
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN. 
Executive Committee - 
MADISON GRANT, Chairman, 
SAMUEL THORNE, WILLIAM WHITE NILES 
LEvi P. MorTOoN, Wm. PIERSON HAMIL’ 
Frank K. STURGIS. 
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, Ex-Officio. 
General Officers - 
Secretary, MADISON GRANT, 11 WALL STREET. 
Treasurer, PERCY R. PYNE, 30 PIN REE 
Director, WILLIAM T. HORNADAY, Sc. Z OGICAL PARK. 
Director of the Aquarium, CHARLES H. TOWNSEND, Sc.D., BATTERY PARK. 
Board of Managers - 
Ex-Officio 
The Mayor of the City of New York - 
The President of the Department of Parks, Hon. CHARLES B. STOVER 
Glass of 1912. Class of 1913. Glass of 1914. 
Levi P. Morton, F. Augustus Schermerhorn, Henry F. Osborn, 
Andrew Carnegie, Percy R. Pyne, William C. Church, 
John L, Cadwalader, George B. Grinnell, Lispenard Stewart, 
John S. Barnes, Jacob H. Schiff, H. Casimir de Rham, 
Madison Grant, George C. Clark, Hugh D. Auchincloss, 
William White Niles, Cleveland H. Dodge, Charles F. Dieterich, 
Samuel Thorne, C. Ledyard Blair, James J. Hill, 
Henry A. C. Taylor, Frederick G. Bourne, George F. Baker, 
Hugh J. Chisholm, W. Austin Wadsworth, Grant B. Schley, 
Frank K. Sturgis, Emerson MeMillin, Wm. Pierson Hamilton, 
George J. Gould, Anthony R. Kuser Robert S. Brewster 
Ogden Mills Edward S. Harkness 
Officers of the Zoological Park : 
W. T. HornaDAY, Sc. D., Director. 
H. R. MircHELL - - - - Chief Clerk and Disbursing Officer. 
RAYMOND L. DITMARS - - Curator of Reptiles. 
C, WILLIAM BEEBE = Curator of Birds. 
LEE S. CRANDALL - - - 
W. REID BLArR, D.V.S. > - 
H. W. MERKEL - - = - 
ELWIN R. SANBORN > > > 
G. M. BEERBOWER - - 
W. I. MircHELL - - - - 
JOHN S. BARNES, 
Percy R. PYNE, 
Hon. WILLIAM J. GAYNOR 
Acting Curator of Birds 
Veterinarian and Pathologist. 
Chief Forester and Constructor. 
Editor and Photographer. 
Civil Engineer. 
Office Assistant. 
Officers of the Aquarium 
CHARLES H. TOWNSEND, Director. 
Raymon C IRN, Ph.D. = > Assistant Director. 
CHAPMA AD = = = - = Scientific Assistant 
W.I. DENYSE - : = = = = - In Charge of Collections. 
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
The Seventeenth Annual Meeting—in the 
Grand Ball Room of the Waldorf-Astoria on the 
evening of January 10, 1911, was the most suc- 
cessful one that the Society has held since its 
inauguration. Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn pre- 
sided and announced the names of the subscribers 
to the Endowment Fund—a list of whom is 
printed in this issue. Mr. Madison Grant report- 
ed as Chairman of the Executive Committee. The 
members of the Society were invited to avail 
themselves of the new Administration Building, 
SOCIETY 
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and its advantages were clearly presented to 
prospective ones. Mr. Grant spoke at consid- 
erable length upon the proposed new Aquarium, 
plans for which the Society is energetically 
working upon. The business of the evening 
was concluded by the presentation of a new 
game protection resolution, which was enthusias- 
tically received and unanimously passed by the 
Society. Mr. Roy Andrews showed a series of 
whaling pictures, with an interesting description 
of modern methods of hunting this large mam- 
mal. Mr. C. J. (Buffalo) Jones illustrated with an 
extensive set of moving pictures, his method of 
lassoing wild animals in Africa; and a fine series 
of films of bird life on the islands off the Scot- 
tish Coast, completed an interesting entertain- 
ment. ‘The Ball Room, which comfortably seats 
about 1,200 persons, was almost entirely filled. 
After refreshments were served the meeting ad- 
journed. Ep. 
GAME PROTECTION RESOLUTION 
Passed by the New York Zoological Society at 
the Annual Meeting, January 10, 1911. 
The following action on game protection was taken 
at the Annual Meeting of the New York Zoological 
Society, Tuesday, January 10, 1911. Over 1,000 mem- 
bers and guests were present, and the action was 
taken with unanimity and enthusiasm. 
Wuereas, it has been generally asserted in the pub- 
lic press that certain commercial interests in the City 
of New York will endeavor, at the coming session of 
the legislature of the State, to repeal Section 98, 
Chapter 24 of the Laws of the State of New York, 
restricting the sale of the plumage of wild birds, and 
Section 241, Chapter 24 relating to the possession and 
sale of game birds during the close season, and 
Wuereas, the market hunters of Long Island have 
declared publicly their intention of securing the re- 
peal of Section 170, Chapter 24 of the Laws of the 
State of New York, prohibiting the spring shooting 
of wild fowl, and 
Wuereas, the laws as they now stand are barely 
sufficient for the protection of our wild birds, 
Now, Trerrrore, Be Iv Resotvep, that the New 
York Zoological Society does hereby condemn any at- 
tempt to modify the existing statutes in the afore- 
said manner, and be it 
Furrner Resorvep, that the officers of the Zoolog- 
ical Society be instructed to take such steps as may, 
in their judgment, be most effective to provide for 
the maintenance of the existing provisions of law for 
the protection of the birds of this State. 
Wuenreas, the widely diversified statutes of the vari- 
ous states of the Union relative to the protection of 
wild fowl are entirely inadequate for the preservation 
of game birds, and 
Wuereas, many species of birds in their annual 
migrations traverse the entire length of the United 
States, and pass through many distinct jurisdictions 
wherein the laws vary greatly, with the result that the 
