A GREAT NOSE 



MAMMA HIPPO 



the Scientific American and I entered the Aquarium 

 for the purpose of sketching the 



GREAT SEA-COW OF FLORIDA. 



Passing the many tanks, allowing the finny oc- 

 cupants to swim and flop unnoticed, I proceeded 

 straight to the pit formerly occupied by a baby 

 hippopotamus. As I stood looking into the vat 

 there was a disturbance in the water and again I 

 saw a cow-like nose armed with stiff bristles ap- 

 pear for a moment above the surface and then 

 sink out of sight; this was all that happened to 

 tell me that the tank was occupied and all that 

 could be seen, until through the kindness of the 

 keeper the water was drawn from the tank. 



As the water lowered, an apparently shapeless 

 mass, enveloped in a wrinkled, slate-colored skin, 



