NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. 93 
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ONE OF THE BALANCED AQUARIA. 
Similar ones are being placed in some of the Public Schools of New York. 
Photograph by L. B. Spencer. 
THE COLLEGRIONS: 
During the year the tanks of the Aquarium have contained 
larger collections than ever before. Profitable exchanges were 
made during the summer with the new Aquarium at Detroit, and 
the Government Aquarium at the St. Louis Exposition. A fur- 
ther collection of nearly 200 fishes, representing 37 species, was 
presented by the Bureau of Fisheries at the close of the Exposi- 
tion, being transferred from St. Louis to New York in one of 
