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tank ranged from 14 to 18lb. After this, though those in 
the small tanks lived some years, they did not make any 
appreciable growth; they had obviously reached the limit 
their circumstances permitted. Sir S. Walpole and Mr. 
Archibald Young were greatly interested in this experiment 
when in Southport about some salmon experiments I had 
been making. 
When first the Southport Aquarium was opened, I caught 
at Fleetwood, on the Little Ford Bank, near the Wyre 
Lighthouse, a number of conger eels ; none of these weighed 
more than 2 to 3lb.; if there was an odd 4-pounder it was 
an exception. Some of these I had put in the small tanks, 
and some in the large tanks. Those in the hall tanks grew 
and attained a weight of 6 or 7lb.; those in the big tank, 
where they had plenty of room, went ahead at a most 
surprising rate. At the end of three-and-a-half years one 
of them: died.” That fish -tutned the scales at 6olb.< 1 
forwarded it at once to Mr. Buckland, and he had a cast 
made from it, which is now in the South Kensington 
Museum. Another died at the end of five years. --‘Un- 
fortunately I was not in Southport ‘at the time, but I went 
the next day to. the Aquarium. » It had. been thrown’in a 
corner of the hot engine-room for me to see, and being a 
soft watery fish it would lose much’ weight under these 
eircumstances in twenty-four hours. Still, the creature 
turned the scales at gglb. This fish is also cast, and is in 
