xevi Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [ June, 
feldt in connexion with the Calcutta International Exhibition. 
ers. 
In pane 1906 wes J. D. Nimmo, then _a member of the 
oe pet ess which he a ‘would not pieg add to the 
attractions of the place, but would also have a certain educa- 
tional and economic value in connexion with fisheries.” 
Aquaria have, of late Med assumed great importance as 
Eco institutions of economic value affording 
i rena oe epportanities ot the study of the 
habi ironment of food-fishes 
and for experimental work on Poblans relating to fisheries. 
Regarding the importance of an aquarium in relation to fishing 
industry, the following extracts from Dr. Taylor’s well-known 
book The Aquaria may be quoted :— 
~ To economists, aquaria cannot fail to. be of the highest 
interest, tee even within the last few enol observation at several 
of them has settled various most important facts relating to the 
life-history of some of those creatures which are most valuable 
wling did not do much harm, by breaking up the sea bed 
ee the ova of fish had been deposited. The idea then was 
that the cod and whiting-—-two of the most abundant of our 
native food-fishes—deposited their eggs on the sea floor. Pro- 
fessor Sars, the well-known Danish naturalist, had expressed 
his opinion that the ova of these fish floated on ‘the ee but 
it was first substantiated in the Brighton Aquari where 
it was found that the ova both of these fisb and ackorek floated 
spawning s 
Just as nile Siiiabion Aquarium has thus contributed to our 
knowledge of these three fishes, so Mr. Savile-Kent, at the Man- 




