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THE AQUARIUM BULLETIN 



Annual Exhibition at Newark 



Two Views of the Exhibition 



The Essex County Aquarium 

 Society of Newark, New Jersey held 

 its second Annual Exhibition for gold 

 and tropical fish fanciers on Thursday, 

 Friday, Saturday and Sunday, from 

 September 13th to 16th inclusive, in 

 the "cast"' Hall of the Newark Public 

 Library. 



This large section of the library 

 was ideal, the entire roof being one 

 vast sky-light, while the side walls 

 w T ere of a light grey tint, affording 

 excellent lighting conditions for the 

 display. The management of the 

 Library added further to the attrac- 

 tiveness of the arrangements by artis- 

 tically decorating the side walls with 

 many colored prints of aquatic animal 

 life, to all of which was added the 

 pleasing appearance of many hand- 

 some palms, furnished jointly by the 

 Newark Museum Association and the 

 Aquarium Society. 



The exhibit was open to the public 

 a total of twenty-five hours, during 

 which time 1400 visitors passed 

 through the exhibit. 



Five cups were offered in addition 

 to the usual ribbons. 



The cup offered for the best gold 

 fish exhibited by a member of the 

 Newark Society was awarded to the 



Rev. B. Coltarti for young Broad-tails. 

 Their remarkable development and 

 coloring was credited to the fact that 

 they were raised out-of-doors and feed 

 exclusively on Daphnia. 



C. Breder carried away the cup 

 offered for the best pair of tropical 

 fish exhibited by a member of the 

 Newark Society, with a beautiful pair 

 of two year old Danio rerio. 



C. Thomas earned the cup offered 

 for the largest variety exhibited by a 

 member of the Newark Society. He 

 entered twenty-one varieties of tropi- 

 cal fish ranging from the beautiful 

 little Guppyi to the more rare mem- 

 bers of the Danio and Barbus families. 



The cup offered for the largest 

 exhibit staged by a non-member was 

 taken by F. W. Hedden of Jersey 

 City. Mr. Hedden exhibited many of 

 the more esteemed members of the 

 gold fish family. 



The Brooklyn Aquarium Society, 

 Inc., was awarded the cup offered for 

 the society having the largest repre- 

 sentation of its members exhibiting. 

 A number of the individuals who 

 made up this representation were 

 awarded ribbon prizes on their person- 

 al exhibits. 



Mr. H. A. Van Cott of Bayonne, 



