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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



SAILORS FROM THE ALBATROSS SEINING SHARKS AT SAN BARTOLOME BAY. 

 Photograph by C. H. Townsend. 



ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE 

 ALBATROSS VOYAGE. 



By Charles H. Townsen'd. 



(In Charge of the Expedition.) 



BY a special arrangement with the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries, the New York 

 Zoological Society was enabled to co- 

 operate in the recent voyage of the Fisheries 

 Steamship Albatross to Lower California. 



One of the important results of the expedi- 

 tion from the viewpoint of the Zoological So- 

 ciety was the capture of six young elephant 

 seals for the New York Aquarium. The mem- 

 bers of the Society will doubtless be interested 

 in hearing not only how these animals were ob- 



tained at Guadalupe Island, but in an account 

 of what was accomplished elsewhere during the 

 cruise. As the elephant seal was supposed to 

 be extinct, its re-discovery is a matter of great 

 zoological interest. In addition to the young 

 animals brought back alive, four specimens of 

 the large adult seals (three males and a female) 

 were prepared for the American Museum of 

 Natural History. 



The males — carefully measured before skin- 

 ning — were each nearly sixteen feet long. More 

 than fifty photographs were taken of the ani- 

 mals as they were found on the island. Those 

 published herewith will serve to show the great 

 size, the remarkable proboscis, and how the ele- 

 phant seals look in their natural surroundings. 



ELEPHANT SEAL IN FIGHTING ATTITUDE WITH PROBOSCIS DRAWN UP. 

 Photograph by C. H. Townsend. 



