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icia the Aquarium accepted the proffered co-operation of the 

 Aquariums in Boston and Detroit. While the shipments were 

 large, the share of specimens for the New York Aquarium was 

 of course smaller, the only advantage being a materially lessened 

 cost. 



Sea Horses. — The Aquarium lost its collection of sea horses 

 during the winter and was for several reasons unable to procure 

 more specimens of this perpetually interesting fish. Owing to 

 the unusual accumulation of ice on all local sea-beaches it was im- 

 possible to obtain for the sea horses the Amphipod Crustacea 

 on which they feed. They require live food and perish without it. 



Capture of Ocean Smifish. — Early in June the Aquarium re- 

 ceived and lost on the same day a specimen of the rare Ocean 

 Sunfish, which might have lived indefinitely could it have been 

 transported without injury. Having no collecting boat with a 

 water compartment, this specimen, which weighed 165 pounds, 

 had to be crowded into a tank too small for it, and brought by 

 motor truck from Sheepshead Bay. It could not survive the 

 journey, although in perfect condition when caught. 



Fish Hatchery. — This exhibit, established many years ago 

 to show methods in fish culture, is always of interest to visitors. 

 The eggs of fishes hatched during the year were : yellow perch, 

 150,000, collected in local waters by Aquarium employes; pike 

 perch, 500,000, and whitefish, 500,000, donated by U. S. Bureau 

 of Fisheries; smelt, 3,000,000, and yellow perch, 2,000,000, do- 

 nated by N. Y. Conservation Commission. The young fry were 

 deposited in public waters in New York and New Jersey. Many 

 of the yellow perch were deposited in Prospect Park Lake, 

 Brooklyn. 



Specimens exchanged. — Exchanges of miscellaneous fishes 

 were made with the Detroit Aquarium, and of food fishes with 

 the New Jersey Fish and Game Commission. The Aquarium 

 loaned 75 native food fishes to the New Jersey Commission for 

 exhibition at the State Fair at Trenton in September, receiving 

 at the close of the Fair 127 fishes, collected by the State Commis- 

 sion. Most of the large trout now on exhibition were received 

 from the New York and New Jersey Commissions. 



Aid to Schools and Teachers. — The Aquarium has continued 

 as in past years to supply small forms of marine life to teachers 

 for maintaining small aquaria in public schools. Nearly 700 



