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fronts. There are two adjacent rooms, however, 

 in which stand twenty other tanks, varying in 

 capacity from 40 to 270 gallons, where the animals 

 are viewed from above, looking down into the water, 

 as well as laterally. The number of fish, zoophytes, 

 annelides, &c., kept alive in this splendid aquarium 

 is very great, the sea anemones alone amounting to 

 several thousand. Every one of the latter has to 

 be fed separately by means of wooden forceps. 



The Brighton Aquarium is the largest yet con- 

 structed in England, and its interior is perhaps the 

 most ornately fitted up, and varied with natural 

 objects. The chief corridor (that which contains the 

 aquarium proper) extends 220 feet. The tanks are 

 placed on each side. They are of various sizes, the 

 largest being more than 100 feet long by 40 feet in 

 width, and holds 110,000 gallons of sea water, 

 or nearly as much as that of all the tanks and 

 storage reservoir, included, of the Crystal Palace 

 Aquarium. Indeed, this huge tank is big enough for 

 the evolutions of porpoises, full-grown sturgeons, 

 sharks, sea -lions, turtles, and other huge marine 

 animals. The next largest tank is 50 feet long by 

 30 feet broad. This is placed immediately opposite 

 the former. The total quantity of sea water con- 

 tained in all the Brighton tanks is over 300,000 

 gallons, besides which there are storage reservoirs 

 into which the salt water is pumped directly from the 

 sea outside, which are capable of holding half a million 



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