240 AN EAST COAST NATURALIST 



never heard of their being found dead upon the 

 breaking up of the frost," etc. 



My name was suggested for a reply, and I was 

 obliged to admit that I had not much experience 

 in the matter. I had a fresh -water aquarium in- 

 advertently left in the open, and before I was aware 

 of it, the water began to solidify above, around, and 

 beneath. The fish, narrowed down to an exceedingly 

 small swim, were evidently in a bad way, and to save 

 them, as well as the aquarium, a warmer temperature 

 was selected forthwith. I have known Eels to come 

 to the surface of a pond dead after the breaking up 

 of a severe frost. Another correspondent wrote as 

 follows : 



" I had in a large glass bowl several Goldfish and 

 some Sticklebacks. The water in the bowl became 

 almost a solid block of ice, and I noticed some of the 

 Goldfish were lying on their sides, in what seemed to 

 be a dying condition. After having sawed a circular 

 hole in the surface ice, I placed them in a pail of 

 water with the chill taken off, and placed them in a 

 temperature of about 45 or 50 degrees. In an 

 hour or two they seemed none the worse for the 



