No. 5 (1921) MADRAS AQUARIUM 95 



interesting creatures that abound in our seas ; we cannot at present 

 accommodate any of the many magnificently coloured sea-urchins, 

 starfishes and sea-cucumbers ; we cannot show specimens of the 

 lovely corals that flourish on the reefs at Pamban and Tuticorin ; 

 none of the sea-fans, sea-pens, and corallines can find accommo- 

 dation in the tanks, to say nothing of the jelly-fishes and strange 

 pelagic flotsam and jetsam met with along the shore during 

 stormy weather. 



The life of the local seas shown in the present aquarium must 

 be taken merely as a foretaste of the splendours that shall be 

 when a more commodious building be built, if funds, now lacking, 

 ever become available for such purpose. 



