THE AQUARIUM, OCTOBEE, 1894. 



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The Biological Station at Milwaukee, 

 for the study of the fresh--nater fauna and 

 flora of the lakes, is doing good work. 



The Berlin Aquakiitm. — Of the various 

 public aquariums that we had occasion to 

 see this summer, the one in Berlin stands 

 at the head. It holds up its old reputation. 

 The arrangements of the "interiors" of 

 the tanks, fresh water as well as marine, 

 are simply beautiful ; they reveal that the 

 men in charge of this work are artists who 

 have studied Nature in all its details. 



The animals were, without exception, in 

 perfect health, and consequently it was a 

 treat to observe their waj-s and manners. 

 Of the rarer inhabitants we noticed good 

 : sized specimens of Devilfish (Octopus vul- 

 garis) from the Mediterranean, and hatch- 

 ing Sharks' eggs. Seahorses were quar- 

 tered in one of the beautiful Sea-ane. 

 mones tanks (for which this aquarium has 

 been famous for the last twenty -five years), 

 giving motion to the surroundings of these 

 flower-like animals. The Climbing Perch 

 (Anabas scandens), and Cattish (Saccro- 

 branchus fossilis), both of East India, the 

 Mailed Catfish and several other curious 

 new fish, not yet named, from South Ame- 

 rica, were among the attractions of the 

 fresh water section. Among the amphi- 

 bious collection we saw the Lettered Toad 

 (Ceratophrys ornata) of South America, 

 ; a beautiful animal (if it is allowable to call 

 . a toad beautiful), of the size of a man's fist. 



MoNtTMENTS TO Natuealists. — At the 



' celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the 

 Berlin Zoological Gardens, which occurred 

 last August, a beautiful monument in mem- 

 ory of the late Dr. Heinrieh Bodinus was 

 unveiled. Dr. Bodinus reorganized and 

 remodeled tliis establishment and vinder his 



:able directorship gained for it a world's 

 reputation. 



On September 23d a monument to the 

 two Brehms (father and son) will be un- 

 vailed in Altenburg, the capital of the 

 country of which they were natives. The 

 father, Eev. Dr. Christ. Ludw. Brehm, was 



.a famous German naturalist, and his son, 

 A. E. Brehm, Director of the Zoological 



•Gardens in Hamburg and the first Director 



of the Berlin Acjuarium. He was a great 

 traveler, having traveled in Africa and 

 Siberia. He is the. author of "Brehm's 

 Thierleben," which excellent work on natu- 

 ral history is no doubt known to manj- of 

 our readers. 



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Queries. 



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 vance, which pay's for a year's subscription 

 to The Aquarium, your are entitled to ask 

 information on any point regarding the 

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 Ask as many questions as you please, but 

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 tions are answered by mail, and we pi;blish 

 only such in these columns as are of general 

 interest. 



With this ifsue begins a new subscription 

 to The Aquarium. But although the sub- 

 scription price is payable in advance, this 

 rule is never pressed ; we know that such 

 little matters are occasionally neglected, 

 sometimes because no mailable change is at 

 hand, at other times because business of 

 greater importance interferes. A dollar 

 bill will pay for two years' subscription ; it 

 is easily mailable, and will encourage the 

 editor greatly to make you a still more 

 interesting paper. 



Mrs. R. B., La. — A good case for mail- 

 ing aquatic plants is an empty cigar box 

 (50). We mail a great many that way ; the 

 plants should be wrapped in soft, wet paper 

 first and then packed in damp swamp moss, 

 or where this can not be had, in damp 

 sponges, in the box. The box is then 

 wrapped in strong paper and securely tied 

 with string, but not sealed. In addition to 

 the address the package should be marked 

 "Plants." The postage is one cent for 

 every two ounces. 



G. L., St. L. — There is no doubt that the 

 fish in 3-our basin were killed by the 



