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combine with the attractions of the aqnarium proper those of so 

 many other subsidiary establishments, such as shops, concert halls, 

 billiard rooms, &c., that it is impossible to regard such information 

 as of any real value for the specific purpose contemplated in this 

 enquiry. 



At the third meeting of your Committee, it was resolved that 

 Messrs. Hughes, Parsons, Tonks and Wills should be requested to 

 examine the data which had been obtained, and also to visit the 

 aquaria at the Crystal Palace and at Brighton, and specially to 

 confer with Mr. W. A. Lloyd, whose great experience and un- 

 qualified success in the management of the former, and previously 

 of the Hamburg Aquarium, entitle his opinion ujjon the subject in 

 question to be regarded as of paramount weight and value. The 

 result of their interview with Mr. Lloyd, and of their careful exami- 

 nation of the Crystal Palace and Brighton establishments, together 

 with their analysis of the other information available to your Com- 

 mittee, is set forth in the Report which follows. It remains to be 

 added that your Committee fully endorse the expression which it 

 conveys of sincere gratitude to Mr. Lloyd for the liberal spirit iu 

 which he has unreservedly communicated a great mass of valuable 

 information. 



Report of Suh-Committee. — In accordance with the instructions 

 of the Committee, we proceeded to the Crystal Palace, where we 

 were most courteously received by Mr. W. A. Lloyd, the Manager 

 of the Crystal Palace Aquarium, who not only gave us special 

 facilities for the examination of the tanks, and drew our attention 

 to the points of special biological interest which their inhabitants 

 present, but also fully explained the mechanical arrangements 

 whereby the circulation and aeration of the water are maintained 

 both iu the show and reserve tanks. We desire to record our 

 grateful sense of the great pains which Mr. Lloyd has taken, both 

 personally and by written communications, to put us in possession 

 of much information likely to be valuable in the development of 

 any scheme for the establishment of a local aquarium. From 

 London three of our number went on to Brighton, where they were 

 again very kindly received by Mr. Reeves Smith, the General 

 Manager of the aquarium in that town. We desire in this Report 

 to summarize the information we have obtained from various 

 sources, as well as the results of our own observations, and at the 

 same lime to analyze the replies received to the circulars addressed 



