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Trie Guide-Book 



To Trie New York Aquarium 

 DR. R. W. 5HUFELDT 



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It will be good news to many who are 

 familiar with the present status and the 

 remarkable growth of The New York 

 Aquarium, that it has at last been enabled 

 to issue the desideratum of all such in- 

 stitutions, an illustrated "Guide Book." 

 This has come about as one of the many 

 achievements of Dr. Charles H. Town- 

 send, the present director of this most in- 

 teresting centre of instruction for all 

 who love to observe and study aquatic 

 life as it is here exhibited in the Old 

 Castle Garden at the foot of Broadway 

 in the world's most populous city. 



Those who now visit the aquarium can 

 do so with the assurance that their 

 studies of the many forms on exhibition 

 in the great tanks and pools there can be 

 more advantageously undertaken 



through the aid of the above referred to 

 Guide Book — not only this, for the little 

 volume may be taken home for future 



reference to revive the memory as to 

 what the visitor observed there. This 

 treatise — for it falls short of nothing 

 else, is a small octavo hand book bound 

 in boards, and having nearly 200 pages 

 of text matter, and many illustrations of 

 fish and other denizens of the ocean and 

 our inland waters. There are also ex- 

 cellent figures of inside and outside views 

 of the building itself. 



It is truly wonderful what a host of 

 living forms of a great variety of species 

 have been brought together in this build- 

 ing under the skillful management and 

 foresight of Dr. Townsend, not to men- 

 tion the admirable methods that have 

 been inaugurated to properly exhibit 

 them. 



In a brief notice like the present one 

 it will be quite out of the question to set 

 forth even a small part of the mass of in- 

 formation that this modest appearing 



