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Aquarium Xumher 



PREPARED BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE AQUARIUM 



ZOOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY BULLETIN 



No. SS 



Published hi) the Xeic Yorh- Zooloiiical Socicti/ April, 1909 



THE BERIMUDA AQUARIUM. 



Ax aquarium located iu the tropics has uianj- 

 advantages over one established in a region 

 where cold weather prevails in the winter 

 months. It has not only the marvelously varied 

 life of warm seas to draw upon, but has the 

 supply so close at hand and so abundant that its 

 collections may be changed frequently ^vith little 

 expense. 



The temperature of its water supply requires 

 no costly artificial regulation, and the various 

 foods necessary to the welfare of its occupants 

 are always obtainable. The mere changes of the 

 seasons in the north involve a northern aquarium 

 in heavy expenses. 



In these respects the aquariums now estab- 

 lished in the Bermuda and Hawaiian Islands 

 possess advantages of location which it would be 

 difficult to surpass. 



The Bermuda Aquarium is as _vet but half 

 completed. It occupies the site of an under- 

 ground powder magazine, the interior of which 

 is 100 feet in length by 67 feet in width. It is 

 divided into five transverse chambers with 

 arched ceilings of masonry. A lengthwise pas- 

 sage crosses all the transverse chambers, divid- 

 ing the Aquarium into two sections, the southern 

 being completed. In the ends of each transverse 

 chamber, are either two or three glass-fronted 

 tanks, the tops of which are open to the day- 

 light and the outer air, the chambers themselves 

 being decidedly dark. There are twelve tanks 

 in the completed section. The general effect is 

 suggestive of the Trocadero Aquarium in Paris, 

 which is built in the bottom of an old quarry 

 with all tanks extending up to the level of the 

 grass in the park above. 



THE AQUARIUM AND BIOLOGICAL STATION, AGARS ISLAND, BERMUDA. 

 The entrance to the Aqu.irlum is indicated by Ilie arrow. 

 From a photograph by L. L. Mowbray. 



