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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



Elwin R. Sanborn, Editor. 



Sruartmrnta : 



Mammal Reptile 



W. T. Hornaday. Raymond L. Ditmars. 



Aquarium Bird 



C. H. Townsend. C. William Beebe. 



RAYMONn C. Osburn, Ph. D. Lee S. Crandall. 



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 Neiv York Zoological Society. 



Number IT 



SEPTEMBER, 1!>1I 



(Mrfra of ti]t &arirtg. 



Jli mii^ml : 

 Henry Faireield Osborn. 



tixrtiiilur (Dammttlrr : 



Madison Grant, Chairman, 



John S. Barnes, Samuel Thorne, William White Niles, 



Percy R. Pvne, Levi P. Morton, Wm. Pierson Hamilton, 



Frank K. Sturcis, 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, Ex-Officio. 



O.rlin :i[ (Otlim : 



Secretary 



Madison Grant, 1 1 Wall Street. 



Treasurer 



Percy R. Pyne, 30 Pine Street. 



Director 



William T. Hornaday, Zoological Park. 



Director of the Aquarium 

 Charles H. Townsend, Battery Park. 



fiaaru of ill .nunu-i a -. 



Ex-Officio 



The Mayor of the City of New York 



Hon. William J. Gaynor. 



The President of the Department of Parks 



Hon. Charles B. Stover. 



l.i.... uf 1912. 



Levi P. Morton, Samuel Thorne, 



Andrew Carnegie, Henry A. C Taylor, 



John L. Cadwalader, Hugh J. Chisholm, 



John S. Barnes, Frank K. Sturcis, 



Madison Grant, George J. Gould, 



William White Niles, Ocden Mills. 



CCluna of 1913. 

 F. Augustus Schermerhorn, Frederick G. Bourne. 

 Percy R. Pyne, 

 George B. Grinnell, 

 George C. Clark, 

 Cleveland H. Dodge, 

 C. Ledyard Blair, 



Henry F. Osborn, 

 William C. Church, 

 Lispenard Stew art, 

 H. Casimir de Rham, 



HUCH D. AUCHINCLOSS, 



Charles F. Dieterich, 



W. Austin Wadsworth, 

 Emerson McMillin. 

 Anthony R. Kuser. 

 Watson B. Dickerman, 

 Mortimer L. Schiff. 



EUub of 1914. 



James J. Hill, 

 George F. Baker, 

 Grant B. Schley, 

 Wm. Pierson Hamilton, 

 Robert S. Brewster, 

 Edward S. Harkness. 



(Ptrirrru nt ll.r Zoulugiral Park: 



W. T. Hornaday, Sc. D., Director. 

 H. R. Mitchell ... - Chief Clerk and Disbursing Officer 

 Raymond L. Ditmars - - Curator of Reptiles. 



C. William Beebe ... Curator of Birds. 

 LEE S. Crandall - - - Assistant Curator of Birds 



W. Reid Blair, D.V.S. - - Veterinarian and Pathologist. 



H. W. Merkel - Chief Forester and Constructor. 



Elwin R. Sanborn - - - Editor and Photographer. 



O. M. Beebbower - - - Civil Engineer. 



\Y. I Mitchell .... Office Assistant. 



(Sfluerii of Ihp Aquarium 



Charles H. Townsend, Director. 

 Raymond C. Osburn, Ph.D. - - - Assistant Director. 



Chapman Grant Scientific Assistant 



W. I. DeNtse In Charge of Collection!. 



WANTED: A CLEAN NEW YORK. 



LVERYWHERE in the streets and public 

 parks of this city the lawless and disor- 

 derly ten per-cent. of the Public continues 

 to strew waste paper and rubbish of many 

 kinds. On Mondays, when the average com- 

 muter returning from the north looks out of the 

 ear window and sees green grass and woods 

 bestrewn with the rags of Sunday newspapers 

 and the residuum of a thousand lunch boxes, he 

 knows that he has crossed the city line, and is 

 once more in dear old New Y'ork. 



Seven days in the week, — save for brief local 

 intervals, while the street-cleaners' backs are 

 actually in sight, — our littered streets are an eye- 

 sore and a disgrace. Newspaper rags and 

 waste paper prevail, nearly everywhere. 



The tax-payers and the decent people of New 

 Y'ork pay enough for street cleaning and police 

 service to secure the cleanest city in America ; 

 1ml in comparison with Washington or Boston, 

 we are filled with envy and regret. 



Commissioner Stover is absolutely right in 

 stopping the sale of dirt-making unshelled pea- 

 nuts in Central Park ; and every good citizen 

 should uphold him in it. But how many have 



done 



i? In a city reekins- with over-dense 



humanity, the unshelled peanut is a nuisance 

 and a public pest. New York is a progressive 

 city, but it has much to learn from Boston of 

 excellent salted peanuts in paste-board boxes. 



In the matter of rubbish-throwing in public 

 places, New Y'ork contains the worst human ele- 

 ment of any city in America. There is a law- 

 less, defiant ten per-cent. that regards "liberty" 

 and "license" as synonomous. Nothing but the 

 mailed fist is adequate to curb them. 



In the Zoological Park, we have striven 

 against the lawless throwing of rubbish on our 

 walks and lawns. We have made great gains, 

 but the irrepressible conflict continues unabated. 

 It is not a pleasant task, but we have resolved 

 to have a clean park, or perish en masse in the 

 fight to secure it. The expressions of approval 

 that come to us prove that even in New Y T ork a 

 clean park is appreciated. 



And what of New Y'ork City as a whole, as to 

 its streets, its horrible vacant lots, and some of 

 its parks? 



The many open expressions of dissatisfaction, 

 and even of exasperation, that now are being 

 heard and read, portend something. They 

 mean that the time is ripe for a complete revo- 

 lution in behalf of a Clean New York ! The 

 people who are dissatisfied with rubbish in pub- 

 lic places, should seek action now; and the city 



