[7] PRINCIPAL AQUARIUMS ABROAD IN 1873. 637 



The nature of the exhibition, its extent and variety, are shown by 

 the annexed list of the tanks and contents as they were in 1873: 



1. Corals, sea-anemones, sea-cucumbers, tube worms. 



2. Weevers, smelts. 



3. Scad or horse mackerel, young salmon. 



4. Black bream, prawns. 



5. Mackerel. 



6. Turtles, tope, nursehound, sting ray. 



7. Skate, spotted ray. \ 



8. Silver whiting, anemones. 



9. Codling. 



10. Bass, seacray fish. 



11. Mackerel, zoophytes. 



Here intersects the conservatory with ponds for the alligators, seals, 

 and table tanks for the smaller animals, such as anemones, corals, ser- 

 pulse, young dog-fish, tortoises, &c. 



12. Perch, pope, and English pearl mussel. 



13. 14. Pike, carp, tench. 



15. Gudgeon, minnows, gold and silver carp. 



16. Trout. 



17. 18. Prussian carp and gold and silver carp, and eels. 



19. Sea-horses. 



20. Sun-mullet, gray mullet. 



21. Halibut, brill, turbot, soles, plaice, flounders. 



22. Wrasse. 



23. Codling and silver whiting, 



24. Eggs of dog-fish, skate, and cuttle-fish. 



25. Octopus. 



26. Sea-cray fish. 



27. Crabs, goose barnacles. 



28. Lobsters. 



29. Octopus. 



30. Sea bream. 



31. Anemones, small star-fishes, zooplytes, whiting pout. 



Here intersects the Grotto containing gold and silver carp, water Ill- 

 lies, and ferns. 



32. Herrings, anemones, sand eels. 



33. Stickle-backs, anemones, &c. 



34. Conger eels. 



35. Cod. 



36. Picked and spotted dog-fish. 



37. Rock whiting or whiting pout. 



38. Spotted dog-fish, nurse, and rough-hounds. 



39. Monk-fish and gray mullet. 



40. Smooth hounds, sting rays. 



41. Gurnard, pipe-fish, dragonets, ascidians. 



