3752 The Zoologist— November, 1873. 



a matter of course, unsuccessfully ; he was not cut out for business 

 on his own account; he had no skill in buying and selling; but 

 his reputation as an aquarian was established, and in 1859 he was 

 summoned to Paris, and undertook the management of the aquarium 

 in the Jardin d'Acclimatation. 



In 1862 I find Mr. Lloyd again in London, exhibiting an 

 aquarium, worked by compressed air, at the International of 1862, 

 and accompanying the exhibition by the publication of a very clear 

 and compendious account of the principle and construction of 

 aquariums in general and of the Exhibition aquarium in particular. 



While thus occupied he was visited by Dr. H. A. Meyer, 

 who was desirous of establishing an aquarium at Hamburg, and 

 this finally led to an arrangement with Baron Merck for Mr. Lloyd's 

 removal to that city and the construction of an aquarium in the 

 Zoological Gardens there, under his sole superintendence : this 

 was opened in the spring of 1864, and soon became eminently 

 popular as well as successful in a pecuniary point of view ; the 

 names of the late Dr. Meyer, Professor Mobius, Chief-Justice 

 Schwartz, and the late Baron Ernst von Merck must always be 

 associated with that of Mr. Lloyd in this admirably managed esta- 

 blishment. The sea-water is circulated partly by a water-])rcssure 

 engine set in motion by the town water-works, which drive a pair 

 of water-pumps (instead of compressing air as was done in Paris), 

 and partly by a steam engine which drives two other pumps. 



" The great pecuniary success of the Hamburg Aquarium caused other 

 aquariums to be erected iu various parts of the Continent, namely, in 

 Hauover and at Boulogne-sur-Mer, in 18G0 ; in the Boulevard Montmartre 

 iu Paris, in 1807 ; in the Reserved Park of the Paris International Ex- 

 hibition, in tlie same year, iu two places; twice at Havre in 1867 and 

 1869; in the Zoological Gardens at Brussels, in 1808; in tlie Flora 

 Gardens at Boulogne, in 1869 ; and iu Berlin, in 1809." — ' Official Hand- 

 book,' p. ao. ' 



I do not mention these dozen aquariums as nnder Mr. Lloyd's 

 superintendence, but as called into existence by his successful 

 management at Hamburg and elsewhere. In 1870 he returned to 

 London, at the summons of the "Crystal Palace Aquarium Com- 

 pany," and there he is located at present, and I trust bids fair to 

 become a fixture. And here it is indispensable that I mention that 

 since the Crystal Palace Aquarium was opened two others (at 

 Copenhagen and Brighton) have been completed ; five more (at 



