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Aquatic nife 



institution. 



With respect to the external characters 

 of the Pork Fish, they are all well shown 

 in the cut, thus obviating the necessity of 

 any detailed description of them. Spe- 

 cial note, however, should be made of the 

 two anterior dark bands, one — a vertical 

 one— extending downwards from the 

 first dorsal ray of the pectoral fin, and 

 the other — an oblique one — passing 

 downwards from the top of the head 

 through the eye to a point back of the 

 angle of the mouth. The bands are very 

 black and distinct in the living fish. In 

 front of the anterior bar, the color is of 

 a deep orange yellow, while between the 

 two bars it shades to a pearly gray, spot- 

 ted over with yellow, these latter merg- 

 ing into a yellow area above. The entire 

 fish is of a gray color having pearly 

 lustre, the body exhibiting some eight 

 longitudinal stripes, which are of a rich 

 vellow color. Fins deep yellow ; iris 

 gray. Young specimens are very differ- 

 ently colored as compared with adult 

 ones, the principal color being a bright 

 yellow, while they show, as Dr. Jordan 

 points out, "a large round jet-black spot 

 at base of caudal," with various stripes 

 anteriorly, (p. 1323.) 



Some species of Anisotrcmus occur in 

 the Pacific along our western coasts, 

 others along both coasts of Central 

 America; of Mexico, and in the Atlantic 

 and Pacific Oceans off the more north- 

 erly coast of South America ; so it will 

 be seen that the species of this genus are 

 of wide distribution. 



(Concluded from page 1 15) 

 I hope to be able to give further re- 

 ports in the future, as I have paired 

 brother and sister in the "throw-backs :" 

 Brother and sister by color and also un- 

 related individuals by color in the com- 

 posite class. I was able to secure un- 

 related individuals from Mr. Locke 



whose hybrids are from typical helleri. 

 His experience has been quite similar to 

 mine as to color, size, "throw-backs" and 

 preponderance of males over females. 



Your readers who have tried aerating 

 pails of fishes on long journeys will ap- 

 preciate the following joke, which is too 

 good to keep to ourselves : 



A messenger from the aquarium was 

 conveying a collection of freshwater 

 fishes from the New Jersey State Hatch- 

 ery to the New York Aquarium, and 

 was, of course, kept busy aerating the 

 water by lifting out a dipper ful now and 

 then and letting it fall slowly back into 

 the cans. 



An old lady, alighting at one of the 

 stations, noticed him with apparent in- 

 terest and sympathy as she passed. On 

 reaching the door, she inquired solicitous- 

 ly of the guard, "Is that poor man in- 

 sane?" — Ida M. M ELLEN, Secretary, The 

 New York Aquarium. 



Don't slam a door within your mind ; 

 open the door, so that ideas may go in 

 and out. 



A member of a national medical asso- 

 ciation tells the following story at the 

 expense of a physician : 



"Are you sure," an anxious patient 

 once asked — "are you sure that I shall 

 recover? I have heard that doctors have 

 sometimes given wrong diagnoses and 

 treated a patient for penumonia who 

 afterwards died of typhoid fever." 



"You have been woefully misinform- 

 ed," replied the physician indignantly. "If 

 I treat a man for pneumonia, he dies of 

 pneumonia." — Harpers. 



Do not blow your own trumpet; nor, 

 which is the same thing, ask other people 

 tc blow it. No trumpeter ever rose to 

 be a general. — Edward Everett Hale. 



