Aquatic Life 
An international monthly magazine devoted 
to the study, care and breeding of native, 
exotic, gold and domesticated fishes, other 
animals and plants in the home aquarium 
and terrarium. 
W. Al BOwGiniae  eeee DGhor 
OSHPENE  BAWSNUAN ) 66000 Pablo her 
542 E. Girard Avenue, Philadelphia. 
Entered as second-class matter, September 
2, 1915, at the Post Office, Philadelphia, Pa., 
under Act of March 3, 1879. 
Practical articles and notes on topics per- 
taining to the aquarium and terrarium are 
always wanted for Aguatic Lirr. Readers 
of the magazine are invited to join in mak- 
ing it a medium of mutual help, and to 
contribute to it any ideas that may occur to 
them. The pages are always open for any- 
one who has anything helpful and practical 
to say. Manuscripts, books for review and 
general correspondence should be addressed 
to the editor. 
Aguatic Lire has the largest circulation of 
any magazine in the world devoted to this 
branch of nature-study. It presents to ad- 
vertisers a market that can be reached 
through no other medium. Rates made 
known on application. 
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tances should be by international money 
order. If local checks are sent, ten cents 
should be added for collection charges. 
Copyright 1918 by Joseph E. Bausman 
Vol. I February 1918 No. 6 
As a whale is a mammal, it is not a 
fish, and its flesh, which the Bureau of 
Fisheries is advising us to eat—if we can 
get it—is meat. The New Bedford and 
Nantucket sailors engaged in the whale 
industry always called themselves 
“whalemen,” and were never called “fish- 
by “off-islanders,” as 
the Nantucketers contemptuously term 
all unfortunate outsiders. Some years 
ago, when a tariff law made fish oil free, 
William W. Crapo, of New Bedford, pro- 
tested that a whale was not a fish, and 
his contention was officially recognized 
by the United States Government, and 
whale oil was excluded from the classifi- 
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Aquattc Ltfe 
1916 - 1917 
VOL. II. 
A limited number of copies are available in 
substantial cloth binding, with title page and 
comprehensive’ index. 166 pages and about 
the same number of illustrations, some in color 
Price, $2.25, postpaid. 
Aquatic Life 
542 EAST GIRARD AVENUE. 
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