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Annual Report NEW 5304 ::?53^^ HARVARD UNIVERSITY. LIBRARY OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. GIFT OF ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. 1 i:b>ia^^- TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY CHARTERED IN 1895 OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY A PUBLIC ZOOLOGICAL PARK THE PRESERVATION OF OUR NATIVE ANIMALS THE PROMOTION OF ZOOLOGY 907 NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE SOCIETY, n WALL STREET JANUARY, 1908 COPYRIOHT. 1908, BY THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ^i)t llalbijoff Companp iitto gorfe Contents^ PAGE Board of Managers 7 Officers of the Society 9 Officers of the Zoological Park and Aquarium . lo Members of the Society ii Report of the Executive Committee .... 29 Treasurer's Reports 41 Report of the Director . U\ T. Honiaday, Sc.D. 51 Aquarium Report . Charles H. Ton'nscnd 87 Pollution of Streams . Charles H. Toiunscnd 97 List of Gifts : Zoological Park 104 Heads and Horns 110 Aquarium 112 Report of the Veterinarian W. Reid Blair, D.V.S. 119 Condition of Wild Life in Alaska . Madison Grant 125 By-Laws 135 Index 141 Ii£;t of SUugtrationg page Charles T. Barney Frontispiece Baird Court . 28 American Bison Herd 36 Rocky Mountain Goats 50 Rocky Mountain Goat-Head 51 Chimpanzees 56 Black-Footed Penguins 62 Small-Deer House New Boat House 76 American Bison 80 Spotted Moray 86 Schoolmaster 96 Spotted Hind 96 African Elephants 118 Peninsula Bear 124 poarb of jHanagetsi r Hon. George B. McClellan, Mayor of New York. Ex-Officio : J 1 Hon. Henry Smith, President Dep't of Parks. CLASS OF 190E Le\'i p. Morton, Samuel Thorne, Andrew Carnegie, Henry A. C. Taylor, John L. Cadwalader, Hugh J. Chisholm, John S. Barnes, William D. Sloane, Madison Grant, Winthrop Rutherfurd, William White Niles, Frank K. Sturgis. CLASS OF 1910. F. Augustus Schermerhorn, Cleveland H. Dodge, Percy R. Pyne, C. Ledyard Blair, George B. Grinnell, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jacob H. Schiff, Nelson Robinson, Bourne, Edward J. Berwind, Frederick Gilbert George C. Clark, W. Austin Wadsworth. CLASS OF 1911. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Hugh D. Auchincloss, James W. Barney, Charles F. Dieterich, William C. Church, James J. Hill, Lispenard Stewart, George F. Baker, H. Casimir de Rham, Grant B. Schley, George Crocker, Payne Whitney. : : : OFFICERS i^eto ^orfe 2oolosical ^ocietp President: HON. LEVI P. MORTON. First Vice-President Second Vice-President: HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN. JOHN L. CADWALADER. €xecutifae Committee. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, Chairman, JOHN S. BARNES, WILLIAM WHITE NILES, PERCY R. PYNE, MADISON GRANT SAMUEL THORNE, LEVI P. MORTON, ex officio. Secretary: MADISON GRANT, II Wall Street. Treasurer PERCY R. PYNE, 30 Pine Street. Director of the Zoological Park: WILLIAM T. HORNADAY, 183d Street and Southern Boulevard. Director of the Aquarium CHARLES H. TOWNSEND, Battery Park. Architects: HEINS & LA FAROE. Consulting Landscape Architect: JAMES L. GREENLEAF. Consulting Engineer: H. De B. parsons. (BUictv& of tf)c Zoological ^ark. WILLIAM T. HORNADAY, Sc.D., Director and General Curator. H. R. MITCHELL Chief Clerk and Disbursing OMcer. RAYMOND L. DITMARS Curator of Reptiles. C. WILLIAM BEEBE Curator of Birds. H. W. MERKEL Chief Forester and Constructor. GEORGE M. BEERBOWER Civil Engineer. ELWIN R. SANBORN Photographer and Assistant Editor. Medical Staff. HARLOW BROOKS, M.D Pathologist. W. REID BLAIR, D.V.S Veterinarian. Aquarium Committee. CHARLES H. TOWNSEND, Chairman. CHARLES L. BRISTOL, University of New York. BASHFORD DEAN, Columbia University. ALFRED G. MAYER, Tortugas Laboratory of Carnegie Institute. CHARLES B. DAVENPORT, Director Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. THOMAS H. MORGAN, Columbia University. EDMUND B. WILSON, Columbia University. WILLIAM E. DAMON. ROSWELL MORSE SHURTLEFF. ([Officers! of tfje Aquarium. CHARLES H. TOWNSEND, Director. LEONARD B. SPENCER... .Asst. in Charge of Fresh-water Collections. WASHINGTON I. DE NYSE 4sst. in Charge of Marine Collections. EBEN R. SAMPSON Clerk and Disbursing OiHcer. MEMBERS i^eto ^ork Hoolosical ^ocietp. Honorary jWemtiers!. Prof. J. A. Allen, Prof. Daniel Giraud Elliot, Prof. Alexander Agassiz, * Sir William Flower, The Duke of Bedford, * Dr. F. L'Hoest, Mr. Arthur Erwin Brown, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Mr. Frank M. Chapman, Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild, Dr. Philip Lutley Sclater, liencfactors!. * Barney, Charles T., Schiff, Jacob H., Carnegie, Andrew, Thorne, Samuel, Rockefeller, William, * Whitney, Hon. William C. Jfounbersf. Baker, George F., Morton, Hon. Levi P., Barnes, John S., * Ottendorfer, Oswald, Berwind, Edward J., Payne, Col. Oliver H., Bourne, Frederick G., Pyne, Percy Rivington, Cadwalader, John L., Rockefeller, John D., Dieterich, Charles F., Schermerhorn, F. Augustus, * Dodge, William E., Sloane, William D., * Goelet, Robert, Taylor, Henry A. C, Gould, George J., Thompson, Mrs. Frederic Ferris, Gould, Miss Helen Miller, Trevor, Mrs. John B., * Huntington, C. P., * Vanderbilt, Cornelius, McMiLLiN, Emerson, Vanderbilt, William K., Morgan, J. Pierpont, Wood, Mrs. Antoinette Eno. ^iiotiatt jfounters;. * Babcock, Samuel D., OsBORN, Prof. Henry Fairfield, Blair, C. Ledyard, * Schuyler, Philip, * Carter, James C., Schuyler, Mrs. Philip, Chisholm, Hugh J., Stewart, Lispenard, Crocker, George, Stokes, Miss Caroline Phelps, Dodge, Cleveland H., Sturgis, Mrs. Frank K., Harriman, E. H., Tiffany & Company, * Jesup, Morris K., Vanderbilt, Cornelius. 12 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. patrons!. * Arnold, Hicks, Morris, Miss Eva Van Cortlandt, AucHiNCLosSj Mrs. Hugh D., Morris, Newbold, Barney, James W., OsBORN, William Church, Bliss, Cornelius N., * OsBORN, Mrs. William H., * Bliss, George T., Poor, Henry W., Brewster, Robert S., * Pyne, Mrs. Percy R., Clark, George Crawford, Robinson, Nelson, Clark, Mrs. George Crawford, Ri'an, Thomas F., * Constable, Frederick A., * Schermerhorn, William C, * Cook, Henry H., Schley, Grant B., Ehret, George, Seligman, Isaac Newton, * Flower, Roswell P., * Stickney, Joseph, Ford, James B., Stickney, Mrs. Joseph, Ford, J. Howard, Taylor, James B., Jr., Harkness, Charles W., Thorne, Edwin, * Havemeyer, Henry O., Thorne, Francis B., Havemeyer, William F., Thorne, Henry S., * Hewitt, Abram S., Thorne^ Joel W., Hill, James J., Thorne, Landon K., * Hoffman, Very Rev. E. A., Thorne, Miss Phebe Anna, * IsELiN, Adrian, Thorne, Samuel, Jr., * James, D. Willis, Thorne, S. Brinckerhoff, James, Norman, Thorne, Victor C, Jennings, Miss A. B., Thorne, William, Kennedy, John Stewart, TjADER, Mrs. Margaret T., Lewis, Mrs. George, Tvvombly, H. McK., Mayer, Dr. Alfred G., Von Post, Herman C, * Morris, A. Newbold, * Webb, William H., Morris, Mrs. A. Newbold, * Wolff, A. TLiit Mtmhevi. Adams, Edward Dean, Bruce. Miss Matilda W., Andrews, Constant A., Burden, Henry, 2D, Andrews, J. Sherlock, BusHNELL, Joseph, Auchincloss, Hugh D., Butler, William Mill, Avery, Samuel P., Cam MANN, George P., * Ballantine, Robert F., Camp, Hugh N., Barbour, Thomas, Chanler, Winthrop, Barbour, William, Chisholm, Hugh J., Jr., Barhydt, Mrs. P. Hackley, Church, E. Dwight, Barnes, Miss Cora F., Church, William Conant, Barnes, Miss Mildred, Clarkson, Banyer, Beebe, C. William, CoE, William R., Bell, Mrs. C. M., Coffin, Charles A., Belmont. August, Colgate, William, Betts, Samuel Rossiter, CoLLARD, Mrs. George W., Bishop, Heber Reginald, Conyngham, William L., * Blackford, Eugene G., Cook, C. T., BoLDT, George C, Corning, John J., Bond, Frank S., Coxe, Davies, Booth, William H., Crane, Zenas, BowDoiN, George S., Crimmins, John D., Brinsmade, Charles Lyman, Cuyler, C. C, Brown, George McKesson, Davis, E. W., * Deceased. TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 13 Davis, John W. A., Kunhardt, W. B., deCoppet, Edward J., La Faroe, C. Grant, Delafield, Albert, Langdon, Woodbury G., De Rham, Charles, Lanier, Charles, Dickerman, Watson B., Lee, Charles Northam, Dickey, Charles D., Leeds, Mrs. Warner M., DiTMARS, R. L., Lehman, S. M., Dodge, George Egleston, Lounsbery, Richard P., Dodge, Marcellus Hartley, Low, C. Adolphe, Doelger, Charles P., Low, Seth, Doelger, Peter, Lydig, David, Doelger, Peter, Jr., Lydig, Capt. Philip M., Draper, Mrs. Henry, McAlpin, Charles Williston, DuBois, Miss Ethel, McCoMB, J. Scott, DuBois, Miss Katherine, McKiM, Charles F., DuBois, William A., McLane, Guy Richards, DuNscoMBE, George Elsworth, Mackay, Clarence H., DwYER, Thomas, Mackay, Donald, Elliott, Samuel, MaCY, V. EVERIT, Ellis, W. Dixon, Maitland, Alexander, Ely, Ambrose K., Mallory, Charles H., Eno, Amos F., Marc, Theophilus M., Fairchild, Hon. Charles S., Markoe, Dr. Francis H., Ferguson, Mrs. Farquhar, Marshall, Louis, Ferguson, Miss May, Merkel, Hermann W., Field, Cortlandt de Peyster, Miller, Dr. George N., * Fisher, Mrs. Henry J., Mitchell, Roland G., Fleitmann, William Medlicott, Moore, Mrs. James Amory, Flint, Charles R., Morgan, J. P., Jr., French, S. Barton, * Morris, James, Gerry, Elbridge T., Nesbitt, a. G., Goodwin, James J., Newbold, Thomas, Grant, Madison, Nichols, Mrs. William Gilman, Guggenheim, S. R., Niles, J. Barron, GuNTHER, Bernard G., Niles, William White, Gunther, Franklin L., Parish, Henry, Hagenbeck, Carl, Parrish, James C, Harkness, Edward S., Peabody, Charles A., Harkness, Mrs. S. V., Perkins, William H., Harrah, Charles J., Phipps, Henry, Harris, Alan C, Phoenix, Lloyd, Haupt, Dr. Louis. Phoenix, Phillips, * Haven, George G., Pierrepont, John Jay, Hearn, George A., PiNCHOT, J. W., Henderson, Charles R., Potter, Mrs. Henry C, Higginson, James J., Pratt, Dallas B., Hill, Hugh, Proctor, A. Phimister, Hopkins, George B., Pyne, M. Taylor, Hornaday, W^illiam T., QuiNTARD, George W., Hubbard, Thomas H., Raymond, Charles H., Huntington, Archer M., Riker, Samuel, Jr., Hyde,
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