6 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
PROGRESS OF THE BATTERY ENLARGEMENT—ITS PRESENT CONDITION. 
CASTLE GARDEN IN THE EARLY SIXTIES 
This print is of interest here, as showing a portion of “Kapske Rocks,” on some of which the building rests. The reef 
pictured here lies under the sea-wall. 
From a print in the collection of the Whitehall Club. 
As West Battery, as Castle Garden, as the 
Immigrant Depot, it lias historic claims, and 
finally as The Aquarium, with two millions of 
visitors a year, it is hard to explain the neglect 
it has suffered. Hereafter, there will be less 
complaint about its unsightliness, but it cannot 
be improved into entire keeping with the fine 
buildings of Battery Park for the moderate sum 
now to be spent on it. 
Some day the ancient structure, with its ex¬ 
tensive collections from sea and lake and river, 
will be improved into the new temple of Nep¬ 
tune that it really ought to be. 
OLD PRINTS OF THE AQUARIUM 
BUILDING 
S INCE the reproduction in the Zoological So¬ 
ciety Bulletin for March, 1920, of numer¬ 
ous old prints of this historic building, the 
Aquarium has acquired or borrowed several 
others which are reproduced in the present issue 
on account of their historic value. 
One of these belongs to the early period when 
“Southwest Battery” or “Fort Clinton” stood off 
shore. It shows a mass of shipping in the back¬ 
ground, where high buildings now stand on 
ground made by filling. Another is a rare, col¬ 
ored print giving an interior view in 1855, when 
“Castle Garden” became an immigrant depot. 
Two others are of the period when the space 
between the building and the shore was being 
filled in for the enlargement of Battery Park. 
The fifth shows the building in 1824 at the 
time of Lafayette’s second visit to the United 
States. 
The “Castle Garden Number” of the Bul¬ 
letin (March, 1920), which was soon ex¬ 
hausted, will be reissued at an early date, as it 
still is greatly in demand. C. JJ. T. 
SOUTHERN FISHES TAKEN NEAR 
NEW YORK 
By C. H. Townsend 
A MONG the fishes brought in during the 
summer by the Aquarium well-boat Sea¬ 
horse, was a fine specimen of the thread- 
fish ( Alectis ciliaris ) captured in Sandy Hook 
Bay on July 29. 
It is a southern species which appears on our 
coast in summer as a straggler and is found as 
far north as Massachusetts. Its appearance is 
striking, some of the rays of the dorsal and 
