STRIPED GRUNT. 
NOES ON Eb PUBLIC AQUARIUMS (Ol 
EUROPE: 
By ©. EL. TOWNSEND. 
I N accordance with instructions received from the Executive 
Committee of the New York Zoological Society I visited 
the larger public aquariums of Europe for the purpose of study- 
ing their methods, especially those relating to the storage and 
circulation of salt water, and the exhibition of collections. I 
left The Hague on July 12th, where I had been in the service 
of the State Department in connection with the arbitration of 
whaling and sealing claims against Russia. A month was spent 
in visiting the public aquariums at Amsterdam, Berlin, Naples, 
Paris, Brighton, and Plymouth. Most of these aquariums have 
been in existence for many years, and all are more or less sat- 
isfactory in their results, although controlled and operated in 
different ways. The aquariums at Naples and Plymouth are 
adjuncts to biological stations controlled by scientific bodies, 
while the aquarium at Paris is controlled by the municipality 
and is to some extent a fish-cultural station. The aquarium at 
Amsterdam is an adjunct to the Zoological Garden; those of 
Berlin and Brighton are managed by private companies. 
The Naples and Plymouth aquariums exhibit salt-water col- 
lections only. Amsterdam, Berlin, and Brighton have both fresh- 
