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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



Edited by the Director of th< 

 I'll win It. Sanborn, A- 



Zoologica 

 st. Editor. 



Turk. 



Published Quarterly at the Office of the Society, 

 11 Wall Street, New ITork City. 



Single Numbers. l.j Cents; Yearly, 50 Cents. 



Mailed free to members. 

 Copyright, 1909, by the New York Zoological Society. 



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JANTAHY, 1909 



(iDftkfrB of tljr S-nripIg. 



\h .•',! r» r 1 1 1 : 



Hon. Levi P. Morton. 



txrnttiur (Committer: 



Piiok. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Chairman, 



John S. Barnes, Madison Grant, 



Percy R. Pyne, William White Niles, 



Samuel Thorne, Levi P. Morton, Ex-Offieio. 



U'x ui'i al 'Olln i i •■■ : 



Secretary, Madison Grant, 11 "Wall Street. 



Treasurer, Percy R. Pyne, SUPine Street. 



Director, William T. Hornaday, Zoological Park. 



Director »>f the Aquarium, Charles H. Townsend, Battery Park, 



ftwi.uii pf Jll.ninin-it. 



Ex-OJJicio, 



The Mayor of. the City of New York Hon. George B. McClellan. 



The President of the Dep't of Parks, . . . . Hon. Henrt Smith. 



OUaiifi of 1909. OUafiB uf 1910. Q lann uf 1911. 



Levi P. Morton, F. Augustus Schermerhora, Henry F. Osborn, 



Andrew Carnegie, Percy R. Pyne, James W. Barney, 



John L. Cadwalader, George B. Grinnell, William ('. Church 



JohnS. Barnes, Jacob H. Schiff, Lispenard Stewart, 



Madison (J runt, Edward J, Berwind, H. Casimir De Kliain, 



William White Niles, Ceoi^e ('. Clark, George Crocker, 



Samuel Thorne, Cleveland H. Dodge, Hugh D. Auchincloss, 



Henry A. C. Taylor, C. Ledyard Blair, I iharles F. Dieterich, 



Hugh J. Chishohn, Cornelius Vandexbilt, James J. Hill, 



Win. D. Sloane, Nelson Robinson, George F. Baker, 



Winthrop Rutherfurd, Frederick (J. Bourne, Grant B. Schley, 



Frank K. Sturgis, W. Austin Wadsworth, Payne WTiitney. 



(Oftirrru uf thr Znulugiral JJarlt : 



\V. T. Hornaday, Sc.D., Director 



II. R. Mitchell Chief Clerk and Disbursing Officer 



Raymond L. Ditmaks Curator of Reptiles 



C. William Beebe Curator of Birds 



M. W. MERKEL Chief Forester and Constructor 



G. M. BeerboWER Civil Engineer 



Elwin R. Sanborn Photographer and Assistant Editor 



Harlow Brooks, M.D Pathologist 



W. Reid Blair, D.V.S Veterinarian 



W. I, Mitcheli Office Assistant 



Ferdinand Kaegebehn Librarian 



(SH&tetB uf thv Aquarium: 



Charles H. Townsend, Director 



L. B. Spencer Fresh Water Collections 



W. I. DeNyse ; . Marine Collections 



E. R. Samxson Disbursing Officer 



A GREAT ZOOLOGICAL PARK FOR 

 FRANCE. 

 For several years we have wondered why 

 Paris, the city of many expositions, lias made 

 no move to establish a zoological garden or 

 park on a scale commensurate with the position 

 of France among the great nations. The me- 

 nagerie at the Jardin des Plantes is in the 

 menagerie class, only: and the Jardin d' Ac- 

 climatation never was planned to contain a large 

 and varied zoological collection. In view of the 

 great zoological establishments of New York, 



Berlin, London. Amsterdam and Antwerp, it 

 has been cause for some surprise lh.it the 

 French capitol has made no move in the same 

 direction. 



Last year, when Dr. Gustave Loisel. of Paris, 

 officially commissioned by the Department of 

 Public Instruction of France, spent a week at 

 the New York Zoological Park, studying it with 

 a degree of systematic thoroughness and scholor- 

 ly intelligence that was to say the least most 

 unusual, it seemed quite certain that the effort 

 was based on a serious purpose that might 

 easily have been named. In our design, 

 methods of development and general adminis- 

 tration, there was scarcely a point that Dr. 

 Loisel did not grasp and enter in his records. 

 The workings and methods of our whole estab- 

 lishment were laid bare to him, and of publica- 

 tions, photographs and typewritten statements, 

 we furnished a great supply. This material 

 now makes in Dr. Loisel's report about 50 pages 

 of text, which is embellished by a large series 

 of illustrations, beautifully printed. 



An American artist studying in Paris is now 

 our authority for the news that the French gov- 

 ernment has announced its intention to establish 

 a zoological garden on a grand scale, and devote 

 to its development a very large sum of money. 

 The animal painters and sculptors of Paris have 

 been invited to submit suggestions for the facili- 

 ties which they desire in the new institution in 

 connection with their work. In pursuance of 

 this reejuest, the artist referred to has recently 

 made a careful personal inspection of the studio 

 in our Lion House, and the specially-invented 

 transfer cage by which animals are placed in it. 

 and withdrawn. 



Naturally, we welcome the news from Paris 

 with keen satisfaction. In view of the appall- 

 ing destruction of wild-animal life throughout 

 the world, there can not be too many zoological 

 gardens and parks; and with all our hearts we 

 wish the French undertaking unbounded success. 

 W. T. H. 



BIRD SLAUGHTER AND ITS TERRIBLE 

 RESULTS. 



I have recently received a letter from Aus- 

 tralia which seems of sufficient general interest 

 and importance for publication. Its theme is 

 the ill effects resulting from the indiscriminate 

 slaughter of birds; by no means a novel subject 

 for debate, but one which is becoming ever more 

 vital to the multiplying myriads of human be- 

 ings on the earth. 



The statement of mine alluded to is, in brief, 

 that if every bird in the world was suddenly to 

 be wiped out of existence, the earth would. 



