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March was 519j468, an in- 

 crease of 59,909 as com- 

 pared with the same months 

 of last year. An attendance 

 of over half a million in 

 three winter months is re- 

 markable and breaks the 

 Aquarium's own record. 



LONG-EARED SUNF1SH. NEW YORK AQUAR1 

 Flashlight photograph by Lazarnick. 



week in Bermuda studying the instantaneous 

 color changes of tropical fishes, an account of 

 which will be published in the forthcoming Re- 

 port of the New York Zoological Society. He 

 devoted some time to the equipment and methods 

 of the new Bermuda Aquarium, which will be 

 fully described in a work he is preparing on the 

 construction and operation of public aquariums 

 in general. Arrangements were made for the 

 shipment of specimens to the Xew York Aquar- 

 ium in June. 



An excellent photograph 

 of one of the dolphins 

 which lived in the Aquarium 

 last summer, appears in this 

 number of the Bulletin, 

 contributed by Mr. Spencer, 

 who also made the photo- 

 graphs of the large crimson 

 sea anemone, (Tealia cras- 

 sicornis), and the bullfrog. 

 Mr. N. Lazarnick contributes the attractive 

 flashlight of the long-eared sunfishes, (Lepomis 

 auritus). 



Leatherback Turtle. — This Bulletin con- 

 tains a photograph of the great Leatherback 

 turtle which last summer lived for some weeks 



The Ocean Sunfish. — Mr. George Pollock, of 

 Xew York, sent to the Aquarium a photograph 

 of the ocean sunfish or head-fish, (Mola), re- 

 cently taken at Palm Beach. Florida, which is 

 reproduced in this Bulletin. The specimen 

 weighed only sixty pounds. This strange fish 

 which is an inhabitant of tropical seas, often 

 comes as far north on our coasts as California 

 and Massachusetts. It reaches the enormous 

 weight of eighteen hundred pounds. In appear- 

 ance it seems to be merely a head with fins ; the 

 dorsal and anal are placed well back and the 

 tail is reduced to a mere fringe connecting them. 



Attendance. — The attendance at the New 

 York Aquarium for January. February and 



OCEAN SUNFISH, (Mola mola), PALM BEACH, FLORIDA. 

 Photograph by George Pollock. 



