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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



built and had charge of the aquarium at 

 Bermuda and, after developing that to 

 its full possibilities, was associated later 

 with the work of the Boston and New 

 York aquariums. 



Mr. Mowbray has had charge of the 

 installation of the complicated tanks and 

 interior equipment of the Miami Aqua- 

 rium and, with his assistants, already has 

 obtained from every available nook and 

 hiding place among the Florida Keys and 

 the Bahamas more than 2,500 fish speci- 

 mens for exhibition purposes. These 

 range from the lordly tarpon to the gentle 

 angel-fish. In the aquarium grounds are 

 open tanks in which are sea-cows, otters, 

 and alligators. 



FOOD VALUE OF WARM -WATER FISHES TO 

 BE ESPECIALLY STUDIED 



The president of the Miami Aquarium 

 Association is Mr. James Asbury Allison, 

 whose great interest in sport fishing 

 brought about a desire to make available 

 a laboratory where investigations might 

 be carried on concerning the food value 

 of warm-sea fish, and thus enlarge the 

 food supply of the country. 



One of Mr. Allison's desires is to de- 

 velop practical data concerning the food 

 worth of certain fishes at different 

 periods of the year. For example, it will 

 be valuable to housewives to know that 

 a mullet at six cents a pound may be, dur- 

 ing certain months, because of what it 

 eats during that time, as valuable in food 

 content as the halibut or sea bass, which 

 cost four times as much, and can be 

 prepared for the table in an equally 

 appetizing manner. Not only will the 

 aquarium seek information of this char- 

 acter through scientific study, but, having 

 ascertained the facts, it will place them 

 at the disposal of the public in popular, 

 understandable form. 



FIRST OF THE AQUARIUM EXPEDITIONS 

 FINDS A FLAMINGO COLONY 



Already the Miami Aquarium has 

 achieved a success in sending an expedi- 

 tion to Andros, the largest, but least 

 known, of the Bahama Islands, to re- 

 locate the most beautiful of the larger 

 birds of the world, the glorious flamingo, 

 once indigenous to Florida, but which no 

 longer exists on the American conti- 

 nent — indeed, it is making its last stand 



in the New World on this island in the 

 Bahama group. 



The party of naturalists, ornithologists, 

 and artists, after weeks of effort in the 

 tidal swamps and uncharted bayous, 

 finally located the flamingo colony and 

 collected valuable data. 



Upon the return of the expedition to 

 Nassau, permission was given by the 

 colonial government to bring back to 

 Miami a sufficient number of the birds 

 for propagation purposes, and they \Vill 

 be located in a giant aviary on the beauti- 

 ful shores of Flamingo Bay, only three 

 miles from the aquarium buildings. It 

 is hoped that in this natural habitat the 

 birds will reacclimate themselves and 

 multiply in large numbers, so that they 

 may once more take their place in the 

 natural history of the United States. 



A method by which the aquarium in- 

 tends to popularize the study of fish life 

 will be by making motion pictures of the 

 peculiar habits of fish, of their move- 

 ments in the water, and their ability to 

 take on a protective coloration when 

 frightened or otherwise disturbed. Mo- 

 tion pictures also will portray the hatch- 

 ing of eggs, the development of the 

 spawn by its natural instincts, showing 

 its efforts toward self-preservation and 

 desire to escape the fate that constant 

 warfare in the seas portends. 



EMINENT AUTHORITIES ON NATURAL-HIS- 

 TORY SUBJECTS AMONG ADVISERS 



Carl G. Fisher is Vice-President of the 

 Association, John Oliver La Gorce, Secre- 

 tary and Treasurer. 



The advisory committee is composed of 

 Alexander Graham Bell ; Gilbert Grosve- 

 nor, President of the National Geographic 

 Society ; Dr. Barton W. Evermann, Presi- 

 dent of the California Museum of Sci- 

 ence ; Henry Fairfield Osborn, President 

 of the New York Zoological Society; Dr. 

 Hugh M. Smith, U. S. Commissioner of 

 Fisheries ; Thomas R. Shipp ; Dr. David 

 Fairchild, agricultural explorer; Dr. 

 Charles H. Townsend, Director of New 

 York Aquarium ; Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; 

 Dr. Carl PI. Eigenmann, of the Indiana 

 University ; Dr. E. Lester Jones, Director, 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, and other 

 well-known naturalists. 



