NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



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OXE OF THE BALANCED AQUARIA. 



Similar ones are being placed in .''ome of the Public Schools of Xew Vork. 



Photograph by L. B. Spencer. 



THE COLLECTIONS. 



During the year the tanks of the .Aquarium liave containeil 

 larger collections than ever before. Profitable exchanges were 

 made during the summer with the new Aquarium at Detroit, and 

 the Government Aquarium at the St. Louis Exposition. A fur- 

 ther collection of nearly 200 fishes, representing 37 species, was 

 presented by the Bureau of Fisheries at the close of the Exposi- 

 tion, being transferred from St. Louis to New York in one of 



