NEW 5304 HARVARD UNIVERSITY. LIBRARY MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY tfcxomrit- 7 Ol}</vyiivL hi, 19^3 NOV 27 1923 < -l O - o ,^ O "a — O g & -^ bo O 3j o ^ TWENTIETH 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 1915 NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE SOCIETY, 111 BROADWAY JANUARY, 1916 Copyright 1916, by THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY CClark & 3PrittB * PRINTERS 206 WEST 3eTH 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 33 Report of the Executive Committee .... 35 Obituary—Samuel Thorne 61 Report of the Director . W. T. Honiaday 63 Report of the Pension Board 100 Report of the Director: Aquarium, Charles H. Townsend 102 Report of the Prosector 123 Treasurer's Report: Income Account ....... 125 Maintenance Fund ....... 126 Ground Improvement Fund ..... 127 Animal Fund 130 Stokes' Bird Fund 130 Heads and Horns ....... 131 Library Fund ........ 131 Aquarium Maintenance Fund ..... 132 New Building Fund—Corporate Stock No. 92 . 132 Endowment Fund . 133 Endowment Fund Income Account .... 134 Cadwalader Animal Fund ..... 134 Wild Life Fund 134 Improvement and Repair Account .... 135 Carnegie Pension Fund ...... 135 Pension Fund Income Account .... 136 Tropical Research Fund . 137 Audit Company's Report 138 Auditing Committee's Report 139 List of Accessions : Zoological Park 140 Aquarium ......... 149 Documents : Articles of Incorporation ...... 154 By-Laws 157 Index 164 ILLUSTRATIONS Regal Pythons loar^ of Mnnn^nB (The Mayor of the City of New York. Ex-officio:^rj.^^ President, Dep't of Parks, City of New York CLASS OF 1917 Henry Fairfield Osborn, George F. Baker, William C. Church, Grant B. Schley, LisPENARD Stewart, Wm. Pierson Hamilton, H. Casimir de Rham, Robert S. Brewster, Charles F. Dieterich, Edward S. Harkness, James J. Hill, William B. Osgood Field. CLASS OF 1918 Levi P. Morton, Frank K. Sturgis, Andrew Carnegie, George J. Gould, Madison Grant, Ogden Mills, William White Niles, Lewis Rutherfurd Morris, *Samuel Thorne, Archer M. Huntington, Henry A. C. Taylor, Henry M. Tilford. CLASS OF 1919 F. Augustus Schermerhorn, Frederick Gilbert Bourne, Percy R. Pyne, W. Austin Wadsworth, George B. Grinnell, Emerson McMillin, George C. Clark, Anthony R. Kuser, Cleveland H. Dodge, Watson B. Dickerman, C. Ledyard Blair, Mortimer L. Schiff. •Deceased. : : General Office, 111 Broadtcay, New York City President Henry Fairfield Osborn. First Vice-President and Secretary : Second Vice-President Madison Grant, Frank K. Sturgis. Treasurer: Percy R. Pyne, 20 Exchange Place, Assistant Treasurer: The Farmers' Loan «fe Trust Company. iExrnttiup (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, ex officio. AuiJitiuri (Unmmittrr William White Niles, Chairman. H. Casimir de Rham, Lispenard Stewart. ^rnatau ISnarii 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, EJittnrial CUnutmittrr Henry Fairfield Osborn, Chairman. William T. Hornaday, Charles H. Townsend. (ilrnpral ©ffircra William T. Hornaday, Director of the Zoological Park. Charles H. Townsend, Director of the Aquarium. George S. Huntington, Prosector. C. Grant La Faroe, Architect. H. De B. Parsons, Consulting Engiyieer. H. J. Shorter, Assistant Secretary. R. L. Cerero, Bursar. ©fiirrrH nf tltr Honlngiral Park William T. Hornaday, Director and General Curator. H. R. Mitchell, Chief Clerk. Raymond L. Ditmars, Curator of Reptiles. C. William Beebe, Curator of Birds. Lee S. Crandall, Assistant Curator of Birds. W. Reid Blair, VeteHnarian Hermann W. Merkel, Chief Forester and Coyistructor. George M. Beerbower, Civil Engineer. William Mitchell, Cashier. Elwin R. Sanborn, Photographer and Editor. QPffirrra of tl|r Aquarium Charles H. Townsend, Director. W. I. De Nyse, Assistant. Chapman Grant, Assistant. L. L. Mowbray, Assistant. George A. MacCallum, Pathologist. Robert Sutcliffe, Clerk. Aquarium (Eammittrr 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 Nnu fnrk Zonlngtral ^orntg January 1, 1916 Tj^mtararji iHrmbrra *Prof. Alexander Agassiz, *SiR William Flower, Prof. J. A. Allen, *Dr. F. L. Hoest, The Duke of Beiiford, Sir Edmund G. Loder, Herr F. E. Blaauw, Dr. C. Hart Mi-rriam, *Mr. Arthur Ekwin Brown, Hon. Lionel AVai.ter Rothschild, Dr. Frank M. Chapman, *Dr. Philip Lutlev Sclateb, *Frof. Daniel Giraud Elliot, Mr. Frederick Courteney Selous, iSrurfartora Baker, George F., KusER, Col. Anthony R.. *Cadwalader, John L., *Morgan, J. P., Carnegie, Andrew, Rockefeller, William, Dodge, Cleveland H., Schiff, Jacob H., '^Thorne, Samuel, iFrntubrrs in Prr).irtittty *Barney, Charles T., Morton, Hon. Levi P., Bourne, P'rederick G., Pyne, Percy R., Dieterich, Charles F., Robinson, Nelson, Gould, George J., Rockefeller, John D., Harkness, Edward S., Stewart, I>ispenard, Hill, James J., Taylor, Henry A. C, Mackay, Clarence H., Thompson, Mrs. Frederick F., Mills, Ogden, *Thorne, Miss Phoebe Anna, *WHiTNEy, Hon. William C, Archbold, John D., Payne, Col. Oliver H., Avery, Samuel P., Perkins, George W., *Barnes, John S., Rainey, Paul J., Berwind, Edward J., Schermerhorn, F. Augustus, Blair, C. I>edyard, Schiff, Mortimer L., Brewster, Robert S., Schley, Grant B., *Chisholm, Hugh J., Shepard, Mrs. Finley J., Clark, George Crawford, *Sloane, William D., *Dodge, Williabi 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, *Vanderbilt, Cornelius, *Ottendorfer, Oswald, Vanderbilt, William K., Wood, Mrs. Antoinette Eno, *Deceased. 14 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY Aaaoriatp iFouuiirrs *Babcock, Samuel D., *Rhinelander, Miss Serena *Carter, James C, *ScHUYLER, Philip, *Crocker, George, Schuyler, Mrs. Philip, deRham, H. Casimir, Sturgis, Mrs. Frank K., *Jesup, Morris K., Tiffany & Company, OsBORN, Prof. Henry Fairfield, Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Patrnna *Arnold, Hicks, Mayer, Dr. 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, Bronson, Edgar Beecher, *Osborn, Mrs. William H., Clark, Mrs. George Crawford, *PooR, Henry W., *Constable, Frederick A., *Pyne, Mrs. Percy R., *CooK, Henry H., Ryan, Thomas F., deLucinge, Princess, Sage, Mrs. Russell, Ehret, George, *schermerhorn, william c, *Flower, Roswell p.. Seligbian, 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., James B., Harrison, Jr., George L., Thorne, Edwin, *Havemeyer, Henry O., Thorne, Frances B., *Havemeyer, William F., Thorne, Heney S., Hawkes, Mrs. McDougall, Thorne, Joel W., *Hewitt, Abram S., Thorne, Landon K., *Hoffman, Very Rev. E. A., Thorne, Jr., Samuel, Hornaday, Dr. Wm. T., Thorne, S. Brinckerhoff, House, Edward J., Thorne, Victor C, *IsELiN, Adrian, *Thorne, William, *James, D. Willis, Tjader, Mrs. Margaret T., James, Norman, *TW0MBLY, H. McK., James, Dr. Walter B., *VoN Post, Herman C., Jennings, Miss A. B., *Webb, William H., *Lewis, Mrs. George, Whitney, Harry, * Wolff, A., Adams, Edward Dean, Barnes, J. Sanford, Agnew, Cornelius R., Baruch, Bernard M., Agnew, George B., Beebe, C. William, Akeley, Carl E., Bell, Mrs. C. M., Andrews, Constant A., Bell, Gordon Knox, August, Andrews, J. Sherlock, Belmont, Armour, Allison V., Betts, Samuel Rossiter, Arnold, Edward W. C, BiNNS, Walter. *AucHiNCL0ss, Hugh D., Bird, Charles Sumner, Barbour, Thomas, Bishop, Heber Reginald, Barbour, William, Blair, Dr. W. Reio, *Barnes, Miss Cora F., Bliss, Mrs. Robert W., •Deceased. TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT 15 Blodgett, William Tildon, Doelger, Charles P., BoLDT, George C, Doelger, Peter, Booth, William H., Draper, Mrs. Henry, BouRY, Louis J., Dressler, Oscar, •BowDoix, George S., DuBois, Miss Ethel, *BowDoiN, Temple, DuBois, Miss Katherine, Bradley, J. R., DuBois, William A., Brinsmade, Charles Lyman, Dugmore, A. Radclyffe, Browx, George McKessen, Dunham, Edward K,, BucH, Miss Emily, Dunscombe, George Ellsworth, Burden, 2nd, Henry, DwYER, Thomas, Burleigh, George W., Edgar, Newbold, Burr, Winthrop, Elliot, Samuel, Burrage, Capt. Guy H., Ellis, W. Dixon, Bushnell, Joseph, Ely, Ambrose K., Butler, William Mill, Emmet, C. Temple, Cammann, George P., *Eno, Amos F., Camp, Hugh N., Fairchild, Hon. Charles S., Cauldwell, Dr. Charles Milbank, Fearing, George R., Cerero, R. L., Field, Cortlandt dePeyster, Chanler, Winthrop, Field, Wm. B. Osgood, Chapin, Charles M., Field, Mrs. Wm. B. Osgood, Chapin, Chester W., Fisher, Mrs. Henry J., Chisholm, Jr., Hugh J., Fleitmann, William Medlicoti, Church, Frederic E,, Flint, Charles R., Church, Mrs. Nellie E., Ford, Henry, Church, Willard, Fraser, Miss S. Grace, Church, William Conant, *French, S. Barton, Clark, F, Ambrose, Fuguet, Howard, Clark, George C, Jr., Garner, R. L., Clarkson, Banyer, Gerry, Elbridge T., CoE, William R., Goldschmidt, S. a., Coffin, Charles A., Goodridge, Mrs. F.