THE PUBLIC AQUAE lUM 



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beauty is to be found 

 in the displays of 

 invertebrate animals 

 in some of the aquari- 

 ums of Europe, as at 

 Naples and ]\Ionaco. 



CREATING AN AQUA- 

 RIUM 



As previously stated, 

 the writer has had 

 inquiries from many 

 cities in the United 

 States respecting the 

 proper procedure to 

 follow in establishing 

 an aquarium. Only a 

 few of these cities 

 have carried such a 

 project to completion. 

 The communications 

 coming from local 

 chambers of com- 

 merce, commissioners 

 of parks, or groups of 

 citizens were answered 

 at first at considerable 

 length, but the infor- 

 mation desired was 

 not such as could be 

 imparted satisfacto- 

 rily by letters, how- 

 ever long. The spokes- 

 man for one of these 

 cities sent a long list 

 of questions, calcu- 

 lated, as he supposed, 

 to call forth all the in- 

 formation that would 

 be necessary for the 

 builder of the pro- 

 posed aquarium. Few 

 of the questions 

 touched the essentials 

 of the matter. It be- 

 came necessary to ad- 

 vise applicants seek- 

 ing such information 

 to send an engineer to 

 New York to study 



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