FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 28, 1911. 
ceived from Gilgit on the border line between 
Cashmir and Tibet. 
In the absence of Dr. Townsend, the director 
of the aquarium, some facts concerning that 
institution were reported on by Dr. Osburn. 
The annual attendance is not quite as large as 
that during the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 
New York, at which time there was a great 
congregation always at the Battery; but the 
attendance the past year was something over 
,3.300.000. The collections are enlarged and in 
better health than ever. Special attention is 
concerning it had reached the ears of African 
explorers as far back as the time of Henry M. 
Stanley, but it was not until 1901 that Sir Henry 
Johnston secured a part of the skin of one of 
these animals and two skulls, from which ma¬ 
terial the animal was formally described. Later 
complete specimens were brought to Europe, 
where three are now on exhibition. 
The animal, which is quite unlike any other 
known, has been said to resemble externally a 
horse and a giraffe, two wholly unrelated species. 
It is gray or dun-colored above, with black 
AN 
New York Zoological Society Managers 
The annual meeting of the Board of Man¬ 
agers of the New York Zoological Society was 
held on Tuesday, January 17th, at the office of 
Percy R. Pyne, 30 Pine street, New York, the 
President, Dr. H. Fairfield Osborn in the chan. 
The usual annual reports were made; the 
officers and the executive committee of the 
previous year were re-elected. 
The Secretary, Mr. Grant, gave the substance 
of the annual report of the excutive committee, 
which will be printed in full in the society’s 
annual report. The financial condition of the 
society has never been so good as at present. 
Quite apart from the great feat of raising an 
endowment fund of a quarter of a million of 
dollars, the revenue to the society from the sale 
of animals, the restaurant and various privileges | 
amounted during the year to $26,000, a sum 
larger than has previously been received from 
these sources. 
Curator Beebe, at last accounts, was in China 
and reported that he had been very successful 
in collecting specimens, living and dead, of the 
various pheasants occurring in the regions 
through which he passed. d hese specimens 
and the publication on the pheasants which is 
to follow Mr. Beebe’s return, are due to the 
generosity of Colonel Kuser, a member of 
the board of managers, who is bearing the ex¬ 
pense of the expedition. 
Mr. Grant called special attention to the new 
plans for the aquarium and stated that the al¬ 
terations, if made, would treble the exhibition 
space in the building, would give room for a 
great marine museum and for a great marine 
biological laboratory. When the plans for the 
aquarium have been carried out, it is likely to 
be one of the most important educational in¬ 
stitutions in the world. 
Dr. W. T. Hornaday, the director of the park, 
made a verbal report announcing that the so¬ 
ciety now had on exhibition one of the two 
living walrus in captivity, a unique herd of 
musk oxen, two wild polar bears, captured by 
the Rainey-Whitney expedition, and a specta¬ 
cled bear, captured in the Andes of Ecuador. 
This is no doubt the rarest bear species in the 
world—except the Aeluropus of Tibet. A large 
order has been sent out to a firm in East 
Africa, which makes a business of capturing 
wild animals, and it is hoped that before long 
a number of large rare and showy animals may 
be received from that source. Among these 
may possibly be a white rhinoceros, and hopes 
are entertained that a pair of reticulated giraffes 
may also come to hand. 
The health of the animals at the Zoological 
Park continues extraordinarily good, and the loss 
by death and disease is very small. The col¬ 
lections there now represent between 1,100 and 
1,200 species of animals, and the specimens on 
exhibition number more than 5,500. 
During the past year the administration 
building has been open and now forms a pleas¬ 
ant and comfortable meeting and lounging 
place for the members of the society. The 
National Collection of Heads and Horns is ex¬ 
hibited in this building, and this collection has 
during the year been greatly increased by the 
addition of a large number of remarkably fine 
specimens. Particularly interesting are two 
heads of markhoor and two heads of ibex re¬ 
called to the pair of fur seal pups now on ex¬ 
hibition there, whose interest has already been 
adverted to in Forest and Stream. 
Okapi for American Museum. 
A cablegram recently received at the Ameri¬ 
can Museum of Natural History from Messrs. 
Lang and Chapin of the Museum s African Ex¬ 
pedition, tells of the capture of a male, female 
and calf okapi and their shipment to the museum. 
In May, 1909, the museum's Congo expedition 
left New York for Africa. The funds for the 
expedition were furnished by Cleveland H. 
Dodge, J. P. Morgan, Jr., Wm. K. Vanderbilt, 
A. D. Juilliard, Robert W. Goelet, William 
Rockefeller, John D. Trevor and Charles Lanier. 
Several reports of the expedition’s progress and 
success have been printed in Forest and Stream. 
It seems but a few years since the announce¬ 
ment was made of the discovery in the dense 
forests of Central Africa of the okapi. Rumors 
OKAPI. 
stripes on the belly and legs. Much of the head 
is bright red, and it has horns, or rudimentary 
horns covered with skin, like the giraffe. 
The material secured for the museum consists 
of skins and skeletons of the specimens, together 
with the trees, shrubs and other plants among 
which the okapi lives. 
The okapi is most nearly related to a fossil 
animal found in the deposits jof Greece and Asia 
Minor, and its nearest living relative is the 
giraffe. On the other hand its neck is not pro¬ 
portionately as long as the giraffe’s. It lives in 
the forest and is believed to subsist largely on 
the twigs and leaves of shrubs and trees. The 
natives capture the animal in pitfalls, dug in the 
trails which it follows, and its brightly colored 
skin is by them highly valued for belts and other 
ornamental purposes. 
When the group in question is mounted for 
exhibition in the museum, it will be absolutely 
unique and will prove of the greatest interest to 
visitors to that institution. 
