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later I brought the question of its utility to the 

 notice of Colonel Gorgas, the eminent authority on 

 tropical diseases in charge of sanitary operations 

 of great magnitude on the Isthmus of Panama. 

 For answer, he pointed to some stagnant ponds in 

 the vicinity of the Culebra Cut, and in each of 

 these was a company of little fishes, all of which, 

 he thinks, devour the larvae of these vehicles of 

 disease. Thus may Nature set the antidote 

 beside the poison. 



Those who know something of the difficulties 

 attendant on the management of captive fishes will 

 appreciate the fact of some of the specimens having 

 flourished in the Aquarium for more than ten years. 

 The truth is that a fish in an aquarium is some- 

 thing like a cricketer once set, there is no know- 

 ing how long it will remain in. Good work has 

 also been done here in the hatching of trout, 

 millions of which have been handed over to the 

 Fish Commission for free distribution in suitable 

 waters throughout the country. So rich in marine 

 forms are the twenty thousand miles of sea and 

 lake coast in that vast territory that anything in 

 the nature of a representative collection from even 

 the two seaboards could not be housed in one 

 aquarium. As a matter of fact, the Atlantic side 

 contributes far more generously than the Pacific, 

 and the deep water round Bermuda and the 

 Bahamas, doubtless because so much more ac- 

 cessible by steamer from New York, has been 

 drawn on much more liberally than even the bays 

 of Florida. 



The restfulness of one day at Bronx and another 

 at the Aquarium made a pleasant change from the 



