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The tanks in the Brighton Aquaviuni were of such huge 

 dimensions that two or three fish in one of them appeared as 

 nothing, and some people had coolly asserted that there were very- 

 few fish in the Aquarium ; now, excluding anemones, which might 

 be counted by the thousand, crabs, lobsters, pi-awns, shrimps, 

 oysters, and all but fish proper, belonging to the class pisces, it 

 would appear that the tanks of the Brighton Aquarium contained 

 nearly ten thousand fish. To show that he was not in the least 

 exaggerating, he might mention. a few of the numbers of particular 

 fish : thus, he found about a 100 bass, the same number of bream, 

 300 carp, 50 chub, 50 cod, some of them of enormous size, the same 

 number of congers (one about 501bs. weight), 200 dog fish (in 

 addition to about 500 hatched on the premises, and rapidly in- 

 creasing in size), about 500 flat fish, including soles, plaice, &c., 100 

 gurnards, 40 gray mullett, 100 perch and pike, nearly 40 pipe-fish, 

 the same number of hippocampi, 40 roach, 17 saloiou (seven hatched 

 last year), besides about 1,500 young char, salmon, and trout, all in a 

 thriving condition, and hatched out that year. Half a dozen 

 skate (one 5ft. across), angel fish and rays by the dozen, 1,000 

 sticklebacks, 150 whiting and whiting pouts, 200 wrasse, together 

 with herrings, mackarel, tench, and a host beside ; and when he 

 learned by inquiring, at the end of last week, that not one fish had 

 that week died, only one the week before, and none the week before 

 that, and that, on an average, one or two a week had been the rule 

 for some time past, he concluded that, first, the assertion, that 

 there were a few fish only, would not hold good ; and, secondly, 

 that 50 or even 100 in 10,000 in a year was a low rate of mortality, 

 not yet attained among human beings, and proved how marvel- 

 lously healthy fish were, when compared with man. These facts 

 and figures spoke for themselves, and conclusively upset the fables 

 mischievously circulated respecting the reputed paucity and 

 mortality of the fish in the Brighton Aquainum, when compared 

 with those in other and minor aquaria. There were many other 

 points of interest to the scientific student, to which he had not had 

 time to allude, but he knew other members would be glad to hear 

 that the observations of Henry Lee would soon be given to the 

 world in a collected form. The public must not expect that fresh 

 fruits or observations would continue to come before them in such 

 abundance as during the past year or two, because the scientific 

 truths, which the commencement of the Aquarium's existence had 



