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tnnity of establishing a museum on a good scale ; and, for his OTvn 

 part, he sincerely trusted that opportunity would be embraced. 



The President invited discussion, especiaUy calling attention 

 to the presence of Mr. Henry Lee, E.L.S., F.G.S., President of the 

 Croydon Microscopical Society, and the Naturalist attached to the 

 Brighton Aquarium. 



Mr Henry Lee said the first feeling that arose in his mind, 

 while listening to the able paper which Mr. Wonfor had just read 

 was one of gratitude and gratification that he had brought forward 

 the subject; for he confessed that, when hearing and reading 

 certain statements that were brought under his notice, he some- 

 times began to wonder whether the Brighton Aquarium was a 

 failure and asham, the Directors idiots, the Manager a charlatan, 

 and the Naturalists ignoramuses. But, when he found how the 

 institution was appreciated by Mr. Wonfor, and his feUow members 

 of the Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society ; as also, when 

 he marked the approbation it received from the London and 

 Provincial Press generally, he rested-certainly not entirely 

 satisfied-but at all events encouraged by what had been done. 

 Helped on by the Board of Directors, he hoped m the fuhire to 

 continue and extend the labours of the past. Whatever credit Mr. 

 Wonfor had been kind enough to bestow upon him, there was 

 an act of justice due to a gentleman who was now absent Owing 

 to the bad work of the contractors, the architect's original designs 

 for the aeration and circulation of the water in the tanks, were no 

 carried out when the building was completed. It was at first 

 intended that the system of aeration should be the same as that 

 adopted at the Crystal Palace; but, in consequence of tt^eco-ti-oc- 

 tion of the reservoirs, this was found to be impossible. When the 

 Aquarium was opened, there was neither aeration -<^^- ^^^^^^^^ j 

 Jd in order to sustain the life of the fish, he oxygenated the water 

 by exposing it to the full sunlight and promoting the excessive 

 .Lwth of weed and of marine alg.; and, notwithstanding it was 

 thouc^ht by some that, in so doing, he was raising a ^^---^^'^^''^ 

 which, in time, he would be unable to queU, he succeeded, by this 

 means, in keeping large numbers of fish ^^^^^l^'^ '^' ^^^""^ 

 present system could be adopted. The credit of the system of 

 ! ation to which Mr. Wonfor had alluded, was due to Mr. Evans 

 a former member of the Board of Directors, who had devised the 



