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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
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Mammals Aquarium 
W. T. Hornaday. C. H. Townsend. 
Birds Reptiles 
Lee S. Crandall. Raymond L. Ditmars. 
William Beebe. Honorary Curator, Birds 
Published bi-monthly at the Office of the Society. 
Ill Broadway, New York City. 
Copy, 25 Cents Yearly, $1.50 
MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS 
Copyright, 1922, oy the Hew York Zoological Society. 
Subscription and Editorial Offices 
ZOOLOGICAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY 
Elwin R. Sanborn, Editor 
Each author is responsible for the scientific accuracy and 
the proof reading of his contribution. 
Vol. XXV November, 1922 No. 6 
two to Palisades Park, and the remainder to 
Sandy Hook Bay. 
A total of 2,886 specimens of fishes w r as col¬ 
lected, consisting of 55 species. In addition 
great numbers of invertebrates of many varieties 
were collected both for exhibition and as food 
for other specimens. Several sea turtles large 
and small were added to the collection as well. 
DR. ALFRED GOLDSBOROUGH MAYOR 
In the deatli of Dr. Alfred Goldsborough 
Mayor, director of the marine biological labora¬ 
tory at Tortugas, Florida, the New York Zoo¬ 
logical Society lost a valued member, and the 
important work of the laboratory he was largely 
instrumental in founding, suffered a serious in¬ 
terruption. 
Dr. Mayor was something more than an ac¬ 
complished investigator; he was in fact a 
personality whose influence drew to his projects 
the assistance of other earnest workers in zoo¬ 
logy. The success which followed the estab¬ 
lishment of the Tortugas Laboratory by the 
Carnegie Institution was due to his leadership, 
and the important volumes winch have emanated 
from it constitute a monument to his efforts. 
Although suffering from a long-continued illness, 
death found him still at work. 
The present writer’s acquaintance with Mayor 
began on a voyage of the U. S. S. Albatross in 
the tropical Pacific in 1899, and continued until 
his death. Association with him developed the 
conviction that lie had an unusually lucid mind. 
His conception of scientific theories was so 
clear that it became a pleasure for his com¬ 
panions to listen to his expositions, which how¬ 
ever came only in the ordinary course of 
conversation and were presented in his char¬ 
acteristically modest and half humorous manner. 
He had a remarkably retentive memory. We 
used to say that Mayor apparently never had 
to learn anything twice. 
Mayor was not only a natural investigator, 
but an artist and draughtsman of great ability, 
as everyone familiar with his published works 
realizes. He was his own illustrator with pen¬ 
cil and brush. His capacity for continuing 
his personal studies of marine life while con¬ 
stantly assisting those of others and managing 
the business details of bis institution, was 
recognized and appreciated by all persons in 
any way associated with him. His versatility 
was notable. A thorough knowledge of naviga¬ 
tion and seamanship enabled him to render 
excellent service during the war, when lie gave 
instruction in navigation and prepared an ex¬ 
cellent manual for the use of naval recruits. 
Between seasons at the laboratory he made 
several voyages to the Pacific visiting Samoa 
and Torres Straits, where his investigations 
added much knowledge respecting the growth 
of coral reefs. 
In the November, 1919, number of the 
Bulletin will be found an article by Dr. Mayor 
on the growth rate of corals, illustrated by a 
remarkable photograph. 
In 1905 Dr. Mayor, then director of the 
Museum of the Brooklyn Institute, presented 
to the Zoological Society, for the benefit of the 
New York Aquarium the manuscript and illus¬ 
trations of a work entitled “Sea-Shore Life,” 
a manual of the invertebrates of the New York 
coast. 
The usefulness of this book, the first of a 
series of books and pamphlets relating to the 
living exhibits of the Aquarium, was soon 
demonstrated by a demand which has continued 
to the present time. It may be well to note 
here that certain typographical and other errors 
in this work are attributable to the fact that 
it was hurried into print during his absence, 
affording him no opportunity to see the proofs. 
Dr. Mayor died on June 24th at the age of 
54. He was a graduate of Stevens Institute. 
After service at Clark University and the Uni¬ 
versity of Kansas he went to the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology at Plarvard. Several 
years association with Alexander Agassiz, in 
laboratory work and during long sea voyages, 
served to direct his studies almost exclusively 
to marine forms of life. 
He wrote the most intimate account we have 
of the work of Agassiz, whom lie affectionately 
