484. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



SEA ANEMONES, BERMUDA AQUARIUM. 

 Photograph by C. H. Townsend. 



have been Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of New 

 York, and Mrs. Reid, of Bermuda. 



The Aquarium is in 

 charge of Mr. Louis L. 

 Mowbray, curator of the 

 Bermuda Museum of Natu- 

 ral History. There are at 

 present two caretakers. The 

 establishment, including the 

 biological laboratory, has 

 two motor launches and two 

 row boats. A good-sized 

 sloop with a "well" for liv- 

 ing specimens is hired for 

 collecting purposes. 



The institution is of great 

 interest locally and is well 

 patronized by the numerous 

 tourists visiting the islands 

 in winter. Local excursion 

 boats call regularly at the 

 Aquarium. 



Like the New York 

 Aquarium the structure oc- 

 c u p i e d by the Bermuda 

 Aquarium, had its begin- 

 ning in military necessities. 

 While the former is the 

 transformation of an old 

 fort, the latter is a convert- 

 ed powder magazine, and 

 both are of ponderous 

 masonry. 



A TROPICAL FISH POND. 



A GREAT pool of the clearest sea water con- 

 taining about two hundred brilliantly col- 

 ored fishes of large size, is one of the sights 

 pointed out to all visitors to the Bermuda 

 Islands. 



To call it a fish-pond is scarcely correct. It 

 might better be described as an open-air aquar- 

 ium, but to the Bermudians it is simply The 

 Demi's Hole. This natural pool appears to be 

 about a hundred feet in diameter, by fifty in 

 depth. It is situated less than a hundred yards 

 from the shore of Harrington Sound and al- 

 though the tides rise and fall within it, the un- 

 derground sea connections are not large enough 

 to permit of the escape of the fishes. 



THE DEVIL'S HOLE, BERMUDA. 

 Photograph by W. Weiss. 



