THE AQUARIUM 
Issued in the Interests of the Study, 
Care and Breeding of Aquatic Life 
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by the Aquarium Societies of Brooklyn, 
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OCTOBER, i912 
Vous No. 5 
Creprr for the issue of last month belongs 
the 
Society local editor, upon whom devolved 
entirely to Mr. Innes, Philadelphia 
the whole work of getting out the maga- 
zine, owing to the editor’s disability. 
In the last number the names of the 
fishes illustrating Mr. Nichols’ article were 
They should have 
been as follows: Upper, Fundulus goodet ; 
somewhat misplaced. 
center, Girardinus formosus ; lower, Jordan- 
ella floride. 
Mr. Francis S. Curtis, a member of the 
New York Society and once its secretary, 
is working diligently to form a society in 
All 
who are interested are invited to get in 
touch with Mr. Curtis, 
760 Church Street, San Francisco, Cal. A 
San Francisco, where he now resides. 
whose address is 
society at this gateway to Asia would mean 
much to us, in view of the fact that the 
finest goldfish come to us from Japan via 
that city. 
An account of the third annual exhibit 
of the New York Society will be found on 
There were altogether 327 
Men- 
tion of the awards will be made in next 
this page. 
entries, divided into eight classes. 
month’s issue. 
42 
The Aquarium Exhibit 
JOHN TREADWELL NICHOLS 
HE annual exhibit of the New York 
Aquarium Society took place in the 
American Museum of Natural History, New 
York, October 6th 13th, 
It constituted what is doubtless the finest 
to inclusive. 
collection of living fresh-water fishes which 
has ever been on public view in Ameriea. 
The different breeds of goldfish formed 
a comparatively small part of the collection, 
yet some fine goldfish were shown and 
The fan 
tails and grotesque telescope eyes of some 
much admired by the visitors. 
of them, a monument to the breeders’ art, 
never lose their interest, familiar as they 
To devotees of the goldfish it 
may have caused regret that the space 
become. 
allotted to these was limited by other forms, 
many of which are less adapted to aquarium 
culture, but most of us were glad to see 
the new things. Some of these less familiar 
fishes doubtless find favor simply because - 
they are new; others are veritable living 
jewels whose popularity must increase with 
familiarity. The paradise fish with gaudy, 
streaming fins have now become so plentiful 
The 
beautiful Indian fishes of the genus 7'richo- 
in aquaria as to scarce merit mention. 
gaster with iridescent yellow, red, and blue 
colors, and long threadlike ventral fins 
which they wave so gracefully, call up visions 
of the mysterious, luxuriant tropical waters 
of that faraway land. The many species 
of iridescent silver and pearl Barbus compel 
our admiration as they float in the still 
of the But 
attractive fish comes from the continent of 
water aquarium, no more 
Asia than the trim, active, boldly-marked 
Danio rerio. Some beautiful specimens of 
Danio malabaricus were very attractive, but 
this species will scarcely find as much favor 
as the smaller, more brightly-colored rerio, 
while Danio analipunctatus is a veritable 
living gem. ) 
The fighting-fish Betta were among the 
most interesting shown. These fishes are 
kept for fighting by the Siamese, pitted 
