The aquarium had a large and important genetics program under Dr. Klaus Kallman and a major Marine, pharmacology program, a marine biology program under doctors, Ross Nigrelli and, George Ruggieri. So the aquarium and the zoo were very close and the staffs completely interwoven. And that situation was working well when I came, but, they were physically quite removed to drive from the Bronx Zoo to the aquarium is an hour and a half or so. And once the aquarium opened, and the aquarium staff moved down there, I think left to some sort of a regrettable separation, but they regularly met at staff meetings and so on. I had nothing to do with the aquarium in the earlier years, except that some of the aquarists especially Christopher Coates became good friends. A few years after you started working at the New York Zoo Society, district council 37 locals went on strike. And when that strike again in 1961.
