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One of tlie greatest triumphs achieved in the Brighton 

 Aquarium, in his opinion, had been the keeping alive, for five, and 

 seven months respectively, a porpoise. Nowhere else would it be 

 possible to keep such an animal alive for as many days. He 

 believed he was right in saying it had been attempted in other 

 places before the Brighton Aquarium was opened, but they failed, 

 because there was nowhere else in the world a tank of such 

 gigantic dimensions as tank No. 6, which was over 100 feet long 

 40 feet wide, and held the enormous number of 110,000 gallons of 

 sea-water. He had heard some ignorant of the difficulties in this 

 case grumble because porpoises would die ; but they forgot it was 

 no small matter to keep alive even for a week, to say nothing of 

 months, an animal so swift-moving and so far-travelling as the 

 porpoise. If any means could be devised of giving a captive 

 porpoise a sea-bath in the open sea for a few days, then, he believed, 

 they might succeed in keeping one alive for years. 



He considered it no small triumph that, in the case of 

 migratory fish, like the mackarel and herring, they had been, as it 

 were, tamed, and shown to the public in shoals. He might safely 

 affirm that, until the late Mr. J. K. Lord succeeded in keeping alive 

 within the tanks his one pet mackarel and some herring, the feat 

 had never been accomplished. Since then, in the Brighton 

 Aquarium, shoals of these delicate and timid fish had been 

 successfully exhibited to the public. This was the gi-eater triumph, 

 because it had been dogmatically asserted that such a thing could 

 never be accomplished on account of the looseness and conformation 

 of their scales. Those who had watched the mackarel knew how 

 enormously they had increased in size; he might add that since they 

 had been in the tank, more than two years, only one of their 

 number had died ; the same remark applied to the shoal of herring, 

 while in the case of the shoal of red mullet, not one had up to that 

 time died. He might incidentally mention that, in addition to the 

 exhibition of shoals, not single specimens, alive, of many of our own 

 common and familiar fish, illustrious foreign fish had also been 

 exhibited in the Brighton Aquarium for the first time in England 

 in captivity, and some creatures exhibited in other jjlaces had 

 spawned ; thus the English public had been made familiar with 

 those strange representatives of the extinct trilobites, the king-crabs 

 of America, the telescope fish of China, the pretty and elegant 



