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THE AQUARIUM, APRIL, 1895. 



piece of cast iron ; the tank may be 

 made of angle iron after the same prin- 

 ciple described in the article referred 

 to above. All that would be necessary 

 in such a case would be to give the 



(No. 13) is bent into shape of a capital 

 letter U ; each end is then bent to form 

 a little hook, and after this the whole 

 is bent m the middle to form a right- 

 angled bracket. AVhen this supjiort 



Pahlor Aquakium. 



outside of the end-glass* two or more 

 coats of paint. 



The two brackets, seen on the right 

 and left of the tank, are to imitate the 

 banks or borders of a brook. To form 

 such a bank, a strong galvanized wire 



has Ijeen shaped to fit snugly (the 

 hooks nicely over the edges of the ends 

 and the wires running alongside the 

 corners of the tank), apiece of ordinary 

 glass about four inches wide and as 

 long as the tank is wide, is placed upon 



