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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



El-win R. Sanborn, Editor. 



Erpartmpntfl: 



Mammal Reptile 



W. T. Hornaday. Raymond L. Ditmars. 



Aquarium Bird 



C. H. Townsend. C. William Beeee. 



Raymond 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, 1912, by the New York Zoological Society. 



Number 49 



JANUARY, 191£ 



(Oftir r m of tije &arielfl. 



JirraUlrtil : 



Henry Fairfield Osborn. 



Ex f rutin* (Commit lev: 



Madison Grant, Chairman, 



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



Percy R. Pyne, Levi P. Morton, Wm. Pjerson Hamilton, 



Frank K. Sturcis, 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, Ex-Offtcio. 



(ftrnrral (OflirrrB : 



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. 



Board of fflunaur ru : 

 Ex-Offlcio 



The Mayor of the City of New York 

 The President of the Department of Parks 



Levi P. Morton, 

 Andrew Carnegie, 

 John L. Cadwalader, 

 John S. Barnes, 

 Madison Grant, 

 William White Niles, 



(Class of 1912. 



Samuel Thorne, 

 Henry A. C Taylor, 

 Hugh J. Chisholm, 

 Frank K. Sturgis, 

 George J. Gould, 

 Ogden Mills. 



(Elasa of 1913. 

 F. Augustus Schermerhorn, Frederick G. Bourne, 

 Percy R. Pyne, 

 George B. Grinnell, 

 George C Clark, 

 Cleveland H. Dodge, 

 C Ledyard Blair, 



W. Austin Wadsworth, 

 Emerson McMillin. 

 Anthony R. Kuser. 

 Watson B. Dickerman, 

 Mortimer L. Schiff. 



(Class ot 1914. 



Henry F. Osborn, James J. Hill, 



William C Church, George F. Baker, 



Lispenard Stewart, Grant B. Schley, 



H. Casimir de Rham, Wm. Pierson Hamilton, 



Hugh D. Auchincloss, Robert S. Brewster, 



Charles F. Dieterich, Edward S. Harkness. 



<S rtirrr a of t hr Zmilnyiral {lark : 



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



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



Raymond L. Ditmars - - Curator of Reptiles. 



C. WlLLLAM 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. 



G. M. Beerbower - - - Civil Engineer. 



(Ptrtrn a of thp Aquarium 

 Charles H. Townsend, Director. 

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



Chapman Grant Assistant 



W. I. DeNyse In Charge of Collections 



Robert Sutcliffe -.- _ Clerk 



CAPT. JOHN SANFORD BARNES, U. S. N. 



At a meeting of the Executive Committee of 

 the Board of Managers of the Zoological Society 

 held on December 12, 1911, the following reso- 

 lution upon the death of Captain John Sanford 

 Barnes was adopted: 



The late Captain John Stanford Barnes, U. 

 S. N., became one of the Managers of the New 

 York Zoological Society, and a member of the 

 Executive Committee in January, 1897, and 

 served actively until his death. 



Captain Barnes deserves no small share of 

 the credit of the successful organization of the 

 Society, and in its early struggles his cheerful 

 enthusiasm and confidence were a constant 

 source of inspiration and help to his associates, 

 especially in the negotiations with the municipal 

 authorities, leading to the foundation of the 

 Zoological Park. 



The Executive Committee experience in his 

 death the loss of a friend, a counsellor and a 

 great-hearted gentleman, slow and cautious in 

 criticism, ever prompt and generous in ap- 

 proval and praise. His loss to the Society and 

 to the City is one that is deeply felt, and his 

 colleagues desire to record their profound sense 

 of personal bereavement and their appreciation 

 of his tireless service in the cause of science, 

 and in the work of the Zoological Society. 



WILLIAM EMERSON DAMON. 



William Emerson Damon died at his home in 

 Windsor, Vermont, November SO, 1911, at the 

 age of seventy-three years. Dr. Damon was a 

 pioneer in aquarium studies in America, and his 

 sister, Miss Elizabeth E. Damon, was probably 

 one of the first persons in the United States to 

 maintain a private, fresh-water balanced aquar- 

 ium. Mr. Damon's interest in aquatic life was 

 first aroused when as a boy he visited the Aquar- 

 ial Hall in Boston, and throughout his life this 

 interest never waned. He was a member of the 

 New York Zoological Society and various other 

 scientific bodies in this country and England. 



Mr. Damon worked actively for the establish- 

 ment of the present aquarium at Battery Park; 

 his advice was sought in the selection of the orig- 

 inal corps of employees, and two of the three 

 members especially chosen by him are still on 

 the staff. His deep interest in the New York 

 Aquarium can best be judged from a remark 

 made by him sometime ago "I am glad to have 



