HARVARD UNIVERSITY. LIBRARY MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY cVcl a/\ucr T|(nK/mivu 3^, /Q<i3 NOV 27 1923 ^i^: TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NEW YORK„o«f,uuau.M ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY CHARTERED IN 1895 OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY A PUBLIC ZOOLOGICAL PARK THE PRESERVATION OF OUR NATIVE ANIMALS THE PROMOTION OF ZOOLOGY 1916 NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE SOCIETY, 111 BROADWAY JANUARY, 1917 Copyright 1917, by THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY Ullark & IFrittB PRINTERS 229 WEST 2eTH STREET NEW YORK CONTENTS Board of Managers 9 Officers of the Society 11 Officers of the Zoological Park and Aquarium 12 Members of the Society 13 Summary of Membership .... 35 Report of the Executive Committee 37 Obituary—James J. Hill, H. C. de Rham 59 Report of the Director . W. T. Homadaij 61 Tropical Research Station . William Beebe 113 Report of the Director: Aquarium, Charles H. Toivnsend 121 Report of the Prosector 132 Treasurer's Report: Income Account 134 Maintenance Fund . 135 Ground Improvement Fund 136 Ground Improvement Fund Account 137 Animal Fund .... 138 Stokes' Bird Fund . 139 Heads and Horns Fund 139 Library Fund .... 140 Aquarium Maintenance Fund . 140 Endowment Fund 141 Endowment Fund Income Account 142 Cadwalader Animal Fund . 142 Wild Life Fund .... 142 Improvement and Repair Account 143 Carnegie Pension Fund . 144 Pension Fund Income Account . 144 Tropical Research Fund 145 Art Gallery Fund 146 Publication Fund 147 Heads and Horns Building Fund 147 Audit Company's Report 148 Auditing Committee's Report 149 List of Accessions : Zoological Park .... 150 Aquarium ..... 158 Documents: Articles of Incorporation . 161 By-Laws ..... 164 Index 171 ILLUSTRATIONS SlAMANG . Frontispiece Japanese Sika Deer 36 42 Island Kangaroos . Drinking Fountain Wild Rice Agile Wallaby Greater Red Kangaroos Plumage for Feather Millinery Types of Hospital Cages Portable Hospital Cage . Operating Room White-Necked Crane Carpet Python Demonstration of an Elephant's Strength Improving Wild-Fowl Pond . Boat House Launch Slip Blasting the Boat House Dam Boat House Landing Rainbow Trout Staff of Kalacoon Research Station Marbled Hamlet . Old Exhibition Tanks . Enlarged Exhibition Tanks . Front Elevation of Aquarium Ground Plan of Aquarium . loarb nf ilanag^ra The Mayor of the City of New York. Ex-oificio The President, Dep't of Parks, City of New York. CLASS OF 1918 Levi P. Morton, Frank K. Sturgis, Andrew Carnegie, George J. Gould, Madison Grant, Ogden Mills, William White Niles, Lewis Rutherford Morris, Edmund C. Converse, Archer M. Huntington, Henry A. C. Taylor, Henry M. Tilford. CLASS OF 1919 Percy R. Pyne, Wm. Austin Wadsworth, George Bird Grinnell, Emerson McMillin, George C. Clark, Anthony R. Kuser, Cleveland H. Dodge, Watson B. Dickerman, C. Ledyard Blair, Mortimer L. Schiff, Frederick Gilbert Bourne, Frederic C. Walcott. CLASS OF 1920 Henry Fairfield Osborn, Wm. Pierson Hamilton, William C. Church, Robert S. Brewster, LisPENARD Stewart, Edward S. Harkness, Charles F. Dieterich, William B. Osgood Field, George F. Baker, A. Barton Hepburn, Grant B. Schley, William Woodward. General Office, 111 Broadway, New York City President : Henry Fairfield Osborn. First Vice-President: Second Vice-President: Madison Grant, Frank K. Sturgis. Treasurer: Percy R. Pyne, 20 Exchange Place. Secretary: Madison Grant, 111 Broadway. Assistant Treasurer: The Farmers' Loan & Trust Company. iExrrutior (Committpp Madison Grant, Chairman. Percy R. Pyne, Lispenard Stewart, William White Niles, Watson B. Dickerman, Wm. Pierson Hamilton, Anthony R. Kuser, Frank K. Sturgis, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Eoc-offcio. Auditing (!l0mmtttpp William White Niles, Chairman. Anthony R. Kuser, Lispenard Stewart. George C. Clark, Chairman. Charles H. Townsend, Percy R. Pyne, Treasurer. H. R. Mitchell, Lewis R. Morris, Raymond L. Ditmars, Wm. B. Osgood Field, Hermann W. Merkel, Secretary. lE&itorial (Emnmittpr Henry Fairfield Osborn, Chairmaii. William T. Hornaday, Charles H. Townsend. (Srurral ©ffirrra William T. Hornaday, Director of the Zoological Park. Charles H. Townsend, Director of the Aquarium. George S. Huntington, Prosector. C. Grant La Farge, Architect. H. De B. Parsons, Considting Engineer. R. L. Cerero, Bursar. Wt&tns of Jl)? Hnnlngiral Park William T. Hornaday, Director and General Curator. H. R. Mitchell, Chief Clerk. Raymond L. Ditmars, Curator of Reptiles. William Beebe, Curator of Birds. Lee S. Crandall, Assistant Curator of Birds. W. Reid Blair, Veterina7ian. Hermann W. Merkel, Chief Forester and Constructor. George M. Beerbower, Civil Engineer. William Mitchell, Cashier. Elwin R. Sanborn, Photographer and Editor. ©flSrpra uf t^t Aquarium Charles H. Townsend, Director. Ida M. Mellen, Secretary. W. I. De NYSE, Assistant. L. L. Mowbray, Assistant. George A. MacCallum, Pathologist. Robert Sutcliffe, Clerk. Aquarium (&mmw\\tst Charles H. Townsend, Chairman. Charles L. Bristol, Edmund B. Wilson, Bashford Dean, Cleveland H. Dodge, Alfred G. Mayer, Charles B. Davenport, Thomas H. Morgan, Charles R. Stockard, Raymond C. Osburn, Grenville Kane. MEMBERS JJ^m fnrk Znnlngtral ^nrt^tg January 1, 1917. Mtatfattova Baker, George F., KusER, Anthony R., *Cadwalader, John L., *Morgan, J. P., Carnegie, Andrew, Rockefeller, William, Dodge, Cleveland H., Schiff, Jacob H., *Thorne, Samuel, iFuuuiirrB in ^rrj-ipluttg *Barney, Charles T., Morton, Levi P., Bourne, Frederick G., Pyne, Percy R., Dieterich, Charles F., Robinson, Nelson, Gould, George J., Rockefeller, John D., Harkness, Edward S., Stewart, I.isi'enard, *HiLL, James J., Taylor, Henry A. C, Mackay, Clarence H., Thompson, Mrs. Frederick F., Mills, Ogden, *Thorne, Miss Phoebe Anna, *Whitney, William C, 3Fnunbrr0 *Archbold, John D., Payne, Oliver H., Avery, Samuel P., Perkins, George W., *Barnes, John S., Rainey, Paul J., Berwind, Edward J., Scherjvierhorn, F. Augustus, Blair, C. Ledyard, Schiff, Mortimer L., Brewster, Robert S., ScHLEY', Grant B., "Chisholm, Hugh J., Shepard, Mrs. Finley J., Clark, George Crawford, *Sloane, William D., *Dodge, William E., *Stokes, Miss Caroline Phelps, *GoELET, Robert, Sturgis, Frank K., Huntington, Archer M., Trevor, Miss Emily, *HuNTINGTON, C. P., Trevor, Mrs. John B., McMillin, Emerson, *VANDERniLT, CoRNELIUS, *Ottendorfer, Oswald, Vanderbilt, William K., Wood, Mrs. Antoinette End, A000riatP 3Fniui&rra *Babcock, Samuel D., *Rhinelander, Miss Serena, ^Carter, James C, *Schuy-ler, Philip, ^Crocker, George, *ScHUYLER, Mrs. Philip, ^deRham, K. Casimir, Sturgis, Mrs. Frank K., '^Jesup, Morris K., Tiffany & Company, OsBORN, Henry Fairfield, Vanderbilt, Cornelius, *Deceased. 14 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY Patrons *Ahnold Hicks, Mayer, Alfred G., AucHiNCLOss, Mrs. Hugh D., Morris, Newbold, Barney, James W., *MoRRis, A. Newbold, *Bliss, Cornelius N., *MoRRis, Mrs. A. Newbold, *Bliss, George T., OsBORN, William Church, Broxsox, Edgar Beecher, *OsBORN, Mrs. William H., Clark, Mrs. George Crawford, *PooR, Henry W., *CoxsTABLE, Frederick A., *Pyne, Mrs. Percy R., *CooK, Henry H., Ryan, Thomas F., DE LuciNGE, Princess, *schermerhorn, william c, Ehret, George, Sage, Mrs. Russell, *Flower, Roswell p., Seligman, Isaac Newton, Ford, James B., *Senff, Charles H., *FoRD, J. Howard, Simpson, Miss Jean Walker, Gould, Jr., Edwin, *Stickney, Joseph, *Harkness, Charles W., Taylor, Jr., Jabies B., Harrison, Jr., George L., Thorne, Edwin, *Havemeyer, Henry O., Thorne, Francis B., *Havemeyer, William F., Thorne, Henry S., Hawkes, Mrs. McDougall, Thorne, Joel W., * Hewitt, Abram S., Thorne, Landon K., Horxaday, Wbi. T., Thorne, Jr., Samuel, House, Edward J., Thorne, S. Brinckerhoff, *Hoffman, E. a., Thorne, Victor C, *Iselin, Adrian', *Thorne, William, *James, D. Willis, Tjader, Mrs. Margaret T., James, Norman, *TW0MBLY, H. McK., Jajies, Walter B., *VoN Post, Herman C, Jennings, Miss A. B., *Webb, William H., * Lewis, Mrs. George, Whitney, Harry, *Wolff, A., ICifr iirmbpra Adams, Edward Dean, Bird, Charles Sumner, Agnew, Cornelius R., Bishop, Heber Reginald, Agnew, George B., *Blackford, Eugene G., Akeley, Carl E., Blair, W. Reid^ Andrews, Constant A., Bliss, Mrs. Robert W., Andrews, J. Sherlock, Blodgett, William Tildon, Armour, Allison V., *BoLDT, George C, Arnold, Edward W. C, *BoND, Frank S., *Auchincloss, Hugh D., Booth, William H., *Ballantine, Robert F., BouRYj Louis J., Barbour, Thomas, *BowDoiN, George, S., Barbour, William, *BowDoiN, Temple, *Barhydt, Mrs. P. Hackley, Bradley, J. R., *Barnes, Miss Cora F., Brinsmade, Charles Lyman, Barnes, J. Sanford, Brown, George McKessex, Baruch, Bernard M., *Bruce, Miss Matilda W., Beebe, C. William, BucH, Miss Emily, *Bell, Mrs. C. M., Burden, 2xd, Henry, Bell, Gordon Knox, Burleigh, George W., Bel:mont, August, Burr, Winthrop, CaPT. H., Betts, Samuel Rossiter, BURRAGE, GuY Bushnell, Joseph, Bix'ns, Walter, *Deceased. TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT 15 Butler, William Mill, Doelger, Charles P., Cammann, George P., ^Doelger, Peter, Camp, Hugh N., Doelger, Peter, *Canfield, Richard A., Douglas, Jr., Archibald, Cauluwell, Charles Milbakk, Draper, Mrs. Hexry, Cerero, R. L., Dressler, Oscar, Chanleu, Winthkop, DuBois, Miss Ethel, Chapix, Charles M., DuBois, Miss Katherixe, Chapix, Chester W., DuBois, William A., Chisholm, Jr., Hugh J., DuGMORE, A. Radclyffe, *Church, E. Dwight, Dux HAM, Edward K., Church, Frederick E., DuxscosiBE, George Ellsworth, Church, Mrs. Nellie E., DuPoxT, Mrs. William A., Church, Willard, DwYER, Thomas, Church, William Conant, Edgar,, Newbold, Clark, F. Ambrose, Elliot, Samuel, Clark, George C, Jr., Ellis, W. Dixox, Clarksox, Banyer, Ely', Ambrose K., Close, Edward B., Emmet, C. Temple,