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The collecting of suitable food in the mild cli- 
mate of southern California has evidently not 
been as difficult as it has at New York, and this 
seems to have been the secret of the success in 
keeping sea horses in the Venice Aquarium. 
—C. H. T. 
“Continually study the history of nature, and 
trace the progress of bodies from one form and 
species to another; contemplate often upon this 
subject, for there is nothing contributes so much 
to greatness of mind.’’-—Marcus Aurelius. 
THE SEAHORSE ENTERING *‘ THE BASIN” BEHIND 
THE AQUARIUM 
A LONG-LIVED SEA HORSE 
On January 11, 1916, the Aquarium sent 
six sea horses (Hippocampus hudsonius) to the 
aquarium at Venice, California. They were 
shipped by way of experiment, in one-gallon 
sealed jars of sea water charged with oxygen, 
two fishes to each jar, and reached their des- 
tination safely. 
Under date of September 10, 1920, Mr. John 
J. Kemp of Venice writes that most of them 
lived until the present year, the last one dying 
in September, 1920. Mr. Kemp states that they 
were always fed on live amphipod crustaceans 
of minute size. 
It has always been the practice at the New 
York Aquarium to feed sea horses on small am- 
phipods of the genus Gammarus gathered along 
the sea beaches. They have, in fact, never been 
successfully fed on anything else, and as there 
are long periods in winter when Gammarus 
could not be obtained, specimens were some- 
times lost from lack of food. Two or three years 
has been the limit of life for sea horses in the 
Aquarium under favorable conditions. 
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DIP-NETTING SPECIMENS FROM WELL OF SEAHORSE 
AQUARIUM GUIDE 
BOOK 
Up to November 1, 1920, 
1755 copies were sold of the 
new Guide Book to the New 
York Aquarium issued last 
February. This is a book 
with 170 pages, 160 illustra- 
tions, in which 350 species 
are briefly described. Num- 
erous mail orders have been 
received, some of them from 
points as far distant as the 
Gulf of Mexico and_ the 
Pacific Coast. 
HOISTING A BUCKING SHARK 
WITH BLOCK AND TACKLE 
