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opposition that always brings out his ideas, — many an ingenious 

 piece of mechanism has been mooted by hira, which has dropped 

 still-born to the ground for want of opposition — ), he completed 

 his plans, and read a paper on the subject at the meeting of the 

 British Association in Birmingham, and exhibited his pump in 

 operation at the Exhibition in 1851. Had Mr. Appold chosen 

 to patent his discovery he might have realised a large fortune 

 from it, but with characteristic liberality he presented it to the 

 nation. The beauty and simplicity, power and economy, of the 

 contrivance has carried all before it, and pumps on this principle 

 are novv gradually spreading all over the world. ^ 



Fish for the Basins. — The appeal of the Council to the 

 Fellows for something with which to stock these pieces of water, 

 has been liberally responded to. Her Majesty has most kindly 

 ordered as many large Carp as may be wished to be supplied 

 from Virginia water; Sir Francis Shuckburgh has offered a large 

 quantity of gold and silver fish; and Mr. Popham, of Little- 

 cote, Berks, has placed several immense trout, of from 8 to 10 

 pounds' weight, at the disposal of the Council. They are to be 

 placed in the canals, where a sort of rocky pool has been prepared 

 for their reception. To get these extraordinarily large fish trans- 

 ported to their new abode will be a work of no ordinary difficulty 

 it being necessary to have a copious supply of oxygen con- 

 stantly pumped into the water in which tbey are carried, to 

 keep them in life during their transit. To supply them with 

 food, too, especially if their natural diet is to be consulted, will 

 not be any easy task; and the emptying of a bucketful of 

 minnows and roach into the canal will doubtless form as in- 

 teresting a subject of observation to the youthful Fellows as 

 the feeding of the lions or pythons is at the Zoological Society's 

 Garden. The Carp are a less delicate and more easily trans- 

 ported fish^ and are to be turned into the other basins. Their 

 food being vegetable, they can be trusted not to eat up one 

 another, and their appetites can be more easily catered for. Mr. 

 Strange, the contractor for refreshments, will keep a supply of 

 the hard-baked round lumps of biscuit with which the lazy 



* Messrs. Easton and Amos are now mating one for China, and tlicy 

 exhibit another example in the present International Exhibition of still more 

 extraordinary powers. ■"•-'-- 



enormous 



00,000 gallons of water ju one minute, being 12 times \?Lat can be done by 

 the Society s pump. 



