308 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



has now been ordered from the present profits, leaving a bal- 

 ance of 5446 to be carried forward. 



The Aquarium Company has been lately the subject of 

 proceedings in court on account of its violation of certain 

 enactments in keeping open on Sunda}''. This has now been 

 compromised by opening on Sundays during certain hours, 

 and as an aquarium only, tlie other exhibitions being omitted. 

 2 A, Feb. 12,1876, 134. 



PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BLOOD. 



Mr. G. Gulliver, F.R.S., one of the greatest living author- 

 ities on the subject of blood corpuscles, has spoken in the 

 highest terms of the photographs of Professor T. G. AYorm- 

 ley and Dr. G. Richardson, exhibiting the human blood disks 

 compared with those of the pig, cat, dog, etc. ; and he ex- 

 presses the hope that American physiologists will continue 

 these valuable representations, especially as the subject seems 

 to be almost ignored in Europe. Monthly Microscopical 

 Journal^ July ^l^'iQ. 



CARRYING HUMBLE-BEES FROM ENGLAND TO NEW ZEALAND. 



A further step in the progress of the international ex- 

 change of animals has just been made in the transmission 

 to New Zealand, by Mr. Frank Buckland, of two nests of 

 Eno-lish humble-bees. The common Ensjlish clover, which 

 has been introduced into New Zealand and Australia, has 

 not produced seeds in proper quantity, due, as is supposed, 

 to the fact that, as bees perform a large portion of the labor 

 of the fertilization of such plants, the proboscis of the com- 

 mon bee is not long enough to reach down to the pollen of 

 the clover flower, which the humble-bee is enabled to do. 

 12 ^,0c^. 14, 1875, 527. 



NEY^ AQUARIUM AT WESTMINSTER. 



The new aquarium at Westminster, which probably is just- 

 ly entitled to the claim of being the largest and most mag- 

 nificent establishment of the kind in existence, was opened 

 toward the end of January for concert purposes, but the 

 tanks were not in a condition for being filled with water. 

 Among some special features of its construction is an ar- 

 rangement that the overflow of water from one tank will 



