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The resolution offered by Mr. Hal lock was unanimously 

 adopted. 



The President : There is an advantage about the Aquarium 

 that Mr. Coup might not regard precisely as an advantage from 

 his stand-point, but it is so to the public at large, and that is the 

 very fact of the changing character of it. The fish do die off 

 more rapidly than I wish they did, for his sake ; at the same 

 time, so far as the public are concerned — and that is a matter 

 that ought to be brought to their attention — it is continually 

 changing. The fish that are on exhibition here are replaced by 

 others, new ones obtained continually ; and I have been sur- 

 prised, coming here as I have, to see what a vast variety of fish 

 have been presented here from time to time, some of them not 

 living very long, and they being replaced by others of different 

 kinds, and so showing a great number of species and varieties 

 of fish ; and it is a matter that the public do not fully under- 

 stand, I think, that the exhibition is one that is continually 

 changing and continually presenting novelties that are interest- 

 ing. 



Mr. Wilmot : I can, in a most happy way to myself, indorse 

 the sentiments that have been expressed in regard to this 

 Aquarium. So far as I am personally concerned, I must say 

 that I have received a vast amount of information, and I only 

 regret that I cannot stay here a week or ten days that I might sit 

 opposite these aquaria and watch the working of the fish, and 

 by that means, I am satisfied, I should obtain much informa- 

 tion that I do not now possess. Prof. Coup may rely upon 

 one thing, and that is that when I return to my countrymen, and 

 I am in conversation with any person who is coming to the City 

 of New York, I shall tell them by all means to visit Prof. Coup's 

 Aquarium, and they will receive a vast amount of information 



