aquatic Life 



1918—1919 



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

 Breeding Haplochilus cameronensis (Nelles) ; 

 The Spotted Gourami (Reams) ; 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 (Breder) ; 

 Hemiramphus fluviatilis (Brind) ; Mollienisia 

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

 ert) ; 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 

 (IVaite) ; 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 carpintis (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(5nnd) ; 

 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 (Shnfeldt) ; 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) ; 

 Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum (Brind) ; Keeping 

 Living Food Alive (Innes) ; Beware the 

 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 (Woblcr) ; Observations on 

 the Chelonians of North America, Part II. 



(Shnfeldt) ; I Became a Fancier (Proctor) ; 

 A Peculiar Planorbis (Breder) ; Association 

 and Color Discrimination in Mudminnows and 

 Sticklebacks (White) ; The Hay Infusion 

 Microcosm (Woodruff) ; The Bladderworts, 

 notes and news. 



June. Observations on the Chelonians of 

 North America, Part HI (Shufeldt) ; Gam- 

 busia episcopi (Brind) ; The Wheel Animal- 

 cules (Bade); Sonnet to a Goldfish (Burditt) ; 

 A Study of the Diamond Bass (Trell) ; The 

 Brook Stickleback (Barker); Goldfish in 

 China, Red-colored Water, Crappie Spawn in 

 Washington Aquarium, and Society News. 



July. A Big-headed Gurnard (Fowler) ; The 

 Nesting Habits of Certain Sunfishes as Ob- 

 served in a Park Lagoon in Chicago (Hubbs) ; 

 Badis badis (Brind) ; The Paradise Fish (Bal- 

 leisen) ; The Garden a Terrarium (Breder); 

 Philadelphia Aquarium, A Fish Elevator, 

 Akiyama Goldfish Farm, notes and news. 



August. Observations on the Chelonians of 

 North America, Part IV (Shufeldt) ; The 

 Stemhart Aquarium, with portrait of Ignatz 

 Steinhart ; Lebias sophise (Brind) ; The Senses 

 of Fishes (Herrick) ; Marine Aquaria, An 

 Epidemic Among Fishes, Manufacture of 

 Pearl Buttons, etc. 



First Fish— "Nobody likes him, he 

 puts a damper on everything." 



Second Fish — "You said it, he's the 

 original 'blue fish.' " 



Who remembers the barber shops with 

 strings of teeth in the windows to let 

 you know that tooth-yanking could be 

 obtained inside? Likewise the aquarium 

 of leeches to restore the proper tink 

 to "black eyes." The characteristic pole 

 is still striped red, to indicate blood-let- 

 ting, but he has a razor for the purpose ! 



FRANCIS K. CHRISTINE 



Manufacturer of "Shield of quality" fishfood, 

 15 cents and 20 cents a box. For Tropicals, 

 25 cents. 



Creation, the new Infusoria (use without 

 sheep manure), 50 cents box. 



Broadtail Telescopes and 25 varieties of Trop- 

 icals. All aquarium requisites. Special 

 Dwarf Gouramies. Mail orders and inquiries 

 promptly attended to. 



518 BELGRADE STREET 



PHILADELPHIA 



