Statement of the Ownership, Management, 

 Circulation , lite, Required by the Act of 

 Congress of August 24, 191:2, of Aquatic 

 Life, published monthly at Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania, for October 1, 1919. 



State of Pennsylvania, ) 

 County of Philadelphia. i s 



Before me, a notary public in and for the 

 State and County aforesaid, personally ap- 

 peared W. A. Poyser, who, having been duly 

 sworn according to law, deposes and says that 

 he is the editor of Aquatic Life, and that the 

 following is, to the best of his knowledge and 

 belief, a true statement of the ownership, 

 management (and if a daily paper, the circu- 

 lation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for 

 the date shown in the above caption, required 

 by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in 

 Section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, to 

 wit: 



That the names and addresses of the pub- 

 lisher, editor, managing editor, and business 

 managers are : 



Publisher — Joseph E. Bausman, 542 East 

 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Editor— W. A. Poyser, 207 South Thirty- 

 seventh street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Managing Editor — None. 



Business Managers — None. 



That the owners are: (Give names and ad- 

 dresses of individual owners, or, if a corpora- 

 tion, give its name and the names and ad- 

 dresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 

 per cent, or more of the total amount of 

 stock.) 



— Owners — Joseph E. Bausman, 542 East 

 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. ; W. A. 

 Poyser, 207 South Thirty-seventh street, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



That the known bondholders, mortgagees 

 and other security holders owning or holding 

 1 per cent, or more of the total amount of 

 bonds, mortgages, or other securities are : 

 A r one. 



W. A. POYSER, Editor. 



Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st 

 day of October, 1919. 

 (Seal) Josephine V. Yeager. 



My commission expires April first, 1923. 



Little Arthur — "I say, father, is it true 

 that nature never wastes anything?" 

 Father — "Yes, Arthur ; quite true." 

 "Then what's the use of the Mexican 

 swordtail having a sword when it can't 

 use it?" 



The primary class had been studying 

 physiology, and in response to a question 

 concerning the human skeleton a pupil 

 replied: "The skeleton is if you sat down 

 without it you couldn't get up." 



aquatic Life 



1918—1919 



September, 1918. The Blood-fin (Heede) ; 

 Breeding Haplochilus cameronensis (Xelles) ; 

 The Spotted Gourami (Kearns) ; Japanese 

 Snail (Boyd) ; Aquarium Water and Its 

 Restoration (Dormeier) ; Aquarium Heater 

 (Hale); Fish Foods (Heede); Happy Fam- 

 ilies, Breeding Habits of Mud-minnow, notes 

 and news. 



October. Aquarium Heating (Bredcr) ; 

 Hemiramphus fluviatilis (Brind) ; Mollienisia 

 latipinna (Heede) ; Blue-tailed Skink (Deck- 

 er t) ; Factors Controlling the Development of 

 Tropical Aquarium Fishes (Webber) ; Snails 

 in Aquaria (Gale) ; Habits of Black Bass, The 

 Pipe-fish, notes, etc. 



November. American Live-bearing Tooth- 

 carps (Bade); Aquarium Notes (Leitholf); 

 Notes on Krefftius adspersus (Freund) ; The 

 Anatomy of the Fish (Clark) ; Breeding Habits 

 of Burmese Eel (Finckh) ; A Bloated Axolotl 

 (Waite) ; The Name "Water Flea," notes and 

 news. 



December. Cynolebias bellottii (Brind) ; 

 Tillaea recurva and Other Notes (Finckh) ; 

 Another Tank Heater (Kuhn) ; Aquarist vs. 

 Aquarian (Mellen) ; Emotions of Fishes 

 (Gale) ; A Cigar Box Aquarium (Modesto) ; 

 Florida Notes (Carlton) ; Photosynthesis. Mis- 

 cellaneous notes, news, etc. 



January, 1919. Limia caudofasciata (Leit- 

 holf) ; Classification of Fishes (Stead) ; Color 

 Changes of the Chub-sucker (Hubbs) ; Neetro- 

 plus car pint is (Brind) ; A Simple Heated 

 Aquarium (Finckh) ; Notes on the Breeding 

 Habits of the Pigmy Sunfish (Poyser) ; Gold- 

 fish Farm of Kichigoro Akiyama, notes and 

 news. 



February. Polycentropsis abbreviata(5W>fd) ; 

 Cho'ogaster cornutus, the Fish of the Dismal 

 Swamp (Welsh) ; A Wood Aquarium (Pil- 

 kington) ; Danio malabaricus (Leitholf ) : 

 Notes on Native Fishes (Pray) ; Managing 

 the Aquarium (Innes) ; Reactions of Fishes to 

 Habit-forming Drugs, The Boston Show, A 

 True Fish Story, notes and news. 



March. Breeding the Goldfish (Hanna) ; 

 Observations on the Chelonians of North 

 America, Part I (Shufeldt) ; Lucania ommata 

 (Welsh); Apistogramma agassizi (Heede); 

 The Water-fleas (Tompkins) ; Viviparous 

 Fishes-in-general (Stead) ; Breeding the 

 Striped Gourami (Simpson) ; Notes and news. 



April. The Surinam Toad (Deckert) ; 

 Cich'.asoma nigrofasciatum (Brind) ; Keeping 

 Living Food Alive (Innes); Beware tne 

 Dragonfly (Gordon) : An Electrolytic Aerator 

 (Putnam) ; Water Lilies, Some Cultural and 

 Historical Notes (Pring) ; Beef vs. Liver, notes 

 and news. 



May. Nanostomus eques (Brind) ; The 

 Water Horse-tail (Wobler) ; Observations on 

 the Chelonians nf North America. Part II 



