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may be turned to usefulness. We are 

 sure that if some one who is favorably 

 located, be it man or woman, would 

 try in the same direction, plenty more 

 pretty and nseful aquarium plants 

 could be secured for cultivation. An- 

 other manner to get novelties, which 

 we have repeatedly practised, is to 

 secure the contents of the stomachs of 

 water fowls and sow these. Another 



prove as great an assistant to the prac- 

 tices of these callings as the micro- 

 scope. 



At the present time, while curiosity 

 is awake, we thought it of interest to our 

 readers to show them how one of our 

 pets appears under this new light, and 

 had one photographed. ■ 



We selected for this purpose a spec-^ 

 imen of the German fire salamander- 



Fire salamnnder, from a photograph taken with X rays expressly for The AqaARiuM. 



one of our celebrated aquarium plants 

 originated in this manner. But some 

 other day about that. 



THE SALAMANDER IN MOD- 

 ERN LIGHT. 



The wonderful discovery of Prof. 

 Roentgen has created quite a sensation. 

 So far, however, we don't see in which 

 way this new discovery will affect the 

 aquarium or fish culturist. It may, how- 

 ever, later on, when better developed. 



{salamandra maadosa), the same spe- 

 cies that during the "dark" ages was- 

 surrounded with so much mystery. 

 The plate was taken in our presence 

 by Dr. McKay, Professor of Physics 

 at the Packer Collegiate Institute, of 

 Brooklyn. 



The process differs from ordinary 

 photography considerably. In ordinary 

 photography the picture of the object 

 to be photographed is focused by a con- 

 densing lens on the prepared plate or 

 film, which is contained in the dark 



