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THE NEW YORK AQUARIUM JOURNAL. 
A COMPLETE INDEX OF ALL THE FISH IN THE TANKS. 
sr’jHCIAIa A.TT 231 SrTIO]xr is directed to the fact that extended changes are now in progress at the Aquarium. As this 
work will require several weeks for its entire completion, it is deemed advisable to retain the present illustrated plan until a revised one may be 
made. For this reason the visitor must be content, for the present, with the following catalogue, making such allowance as may be needed, and in 
our next number a thoroughly revised and corrected index and guide will be given. 
SALT WATER TABLE TANKS. 
Tank L. —Now being reconstructed. 
Tank 2 — “ 
Tank 3.— “ 
Tank 4— “ 
Tank 5.— “ 
Tank 6.— “ 
Tank 7.— “ 
Tank 8.— “ 
POST TANKS. 
Tank 28.—Sticklebacks. 
Tank 29.—Tadpoles, Carp. 
Tank 30.—Cat-fish and Carp. 
Tank 31.—Algae, Unio. 
Tank 32.—Freshwater Lobster, Dace. 
Tank 33.-—Crimson Spotted Triton. 
Tank 34.—Black Headed Dace. 
Tank 35.—Coral, Algae. 
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Tank 9 — “ 
Tank 10.— “ 
Tank 11.— “ “ '• 
Tank 12.—Sand, Hermit, Spider and King 
Crabs. 
Tank 13. — Sea Havens. 
Tank 14. — Anemone, actinia dianlhus. 
Tank 15.—Spotted Wrey-moutli, Anem¬ 
one. 
Tank 1(5,—Anemones, Sponges, and Ser- 
pula. 
Tank 17.—Sea Urchins, Star Kish, Hermit 
and Spider Crabs. 
Tank 18. -P^^^^FTounders, Toad Fisk, 
-Smooth-bit 
SH WATER TABLE TANKS. 
triple-tailed Japanese Carp. 
[>lack Bass, Yellow Pike, Perch, 
ind Proteus, Lamprey. 
a. Young Japanese Carp. 
b. Ling-Tsiug-Yu. 
■English Roach and Dace. 
*>. —Sticklebacks, 
fhk 26.—Common Pond Fish. 
Tank 27.—Sturgeon, Yellow Perch. 
Tank 28.—Banded Proteus. 
Tank 29.—Axolotls. 
Tank 30.—Common Pond Fish. 
Tank 31.—Brown Cat Fish. 
Ground Plan o f the New York Aquarium, 
SALT WATER SERIES. 
Tank 36.—Spotted Skate, Summer Skate, 
Spof ted Dog Fish, American Codling, 
Lobster, Sea Bass, Black Fish or Tautog, 
Ling, Large Surf Bass. 
Tank 37.—Porgies, Shells, Corap Flound¬ 
ers, Anemones. 
Tank 38.— Algae, Crabs, Coral. 
Tank 39.—Anemones, Sponges, Spotted 
Codlings, Porgies, Killies, Hermit Crabs, 
Flounders, Coral, Shells. 
Tank 32—Pickerel. 
Tank 26.—Kingiyo. 
Tank 27.—Young Salmon. 
FRESH WATER SERIES. 
Tank 40.—California Salmon, Lake Trout, 
Brook Trout. 
OTTJFC DRAG HXTE1T. 
GREEDY MR. GANDER. 
BY ir. E. 
Loud called the goose: “Oh! gander, 
Come here, my love, I beg; 
I’ve laid the most enormous 
And beautiful white egg?” 
“Indeed!” said Mr. Gander, 
“That’s news I like to hear; 
Just tell the cook to boil it 
And I will eat it, dear.” 
Conversation overheard in a barber’s:—Barber 
—“Thin your haira bit, sir?”jCustomer— “No, 
never mind, my wife attends to that; but just 
oil it well, 
FAMILIAR PROVERBS. 
HANS KKAOTMANN’S VERSION. 
Von stich quick already by der glock vill 
make dat you don’d shall more os nine all der 
dime sew. 
Id makes noding already ov you schnifel about 
dot ven der milk bail is out shpilled. 
Id ish a sdreet dot ish pooty long ven he don’d 
vill hav by some dimes dose gorners grooked 
mit himself 
Dot ish a sick vind ov id don’d by some oder 
vellars dings blow pooty good. 
Ov a mans vill took gare of dem gopper nick¬ 
els he vill mek dot dem doo dollar pills not vill 
gone avay by dot same. 
Tank 41.— Yellow Perch, Brook Pickerel, 
Blue Cat-fish, Hock Bass, Common Pond 
fish, Mnllett Sucker, Geneva Bass, Hock Bass, 
White Suckers,Wall-eyed Pike, SpottedPerch. 
Tank 42.—Carp, Pearl Carp, Golden Carp, 
Mottled Carp. 
Tank 43.—Brown Cat-fish, Common Cat, 
Blue Cat, Fresh AVater Dog-fish, Lake Stur¬ 
geon, Eel, Gar Pike, Pickerel, Common Pond 
fish, “ Seneca Laker,” (Localism), Bass, Fresh 
Long finned Chub Sucker, Wall-eyed Pike, 
Lake Pickerel, Black Bass, White Fish, Rock 
Sturgeon. 
SALT WATER SERIES. 
Tank 44.—Shoal of Striped Bass, Black fish, 
Sea Perch. 
Tank 45.—Deep Sea Cod, Angler. 
Tank 46.—Blackfish, Striped Bass, Lafay¬ 
ette, King Crab, Skates. 
Tank 47.—Flounder, Tomcod, Toad Fish, 
Sculpins, Gurnard. 
Tank 48.—Lobster, Lady-crab, Edible Crab, 
Spider Crab, Hermit Crab, Spotted Crab, 
Lobster. 
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Tank 50.—Hock Cc/d. 
Tank 51.—Black Sva Bass, large Lobster. 
Tank 52.—Lobster, I Striped Bass, Porgies, 
Lafayette Fish. 
Tank 53.—Brook Trout, Salmon Trout, Cali¬ 
fornia Salmon, Kenebec or Atlantic Salmon. 
Tank 54.—Fish hatching troughs. 
Tank 55.—Sea Lion. 
Tank 56.-—Alligators, 
Tank 57.—Seals. 
Tanks not numbered contain the Salaman¬ 
ders, Japanese Turtle, Otters, Bladder-nosed 
Seal, &c. In certain instances, where a recent 
removal of fish has been deemed necessary 
previous to a revision of this list, information 
regarding its location can be obta ned from 
the regularly appointed assistants, who are 
constantly in attendance for the sole purpose 
of answering questions, or from the extra 
sheet here added. 
Ven der old cat is gone outsides mit herselt 
von der house, dem leedle rats vill all along 
mit demselfs play yust de same like dot. 
Ov a vellare ish got a bird mit his handt al¬ 
ready, he don’d vos schmardt ov he let em got 
avay mit der same price os two ov dem birds by 
a grapevine dree. 
At (he marriage ol an Alabama widower one 
of the servants was asked if his master would 
take a bridal tour. “Dunno, Sah; when old 
missus s alive he took a paddle to her; dunno it 
he take a bridle to de new one or not. ” 
A gentleman asked an Irishman why he wore 
his stockings wrong side outwards. He replied, 
“ Because there’s a hole on the other side.” 
