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THE NEW YORK AQUARIUM JOURNAL. 
A COMPLETE INDEX OF ALL THE FISH IN THE TANKS 
The following tabulated list is designed, with the assistance of the accompanying ground plan, to serve as a guide or index to ihe Aquarium 
Tanks, and although it will be revised semi-monthly, allowance must be made for such changes as may be found necessary during the intervals 
between the dates of publication. 
rSALT WATER TABLE TANKS. 
Tank 1.—Anemones. 
Tank 2. — Porgies, Pectens. 
Tank 3.—Striped Gurnards, barred Killifish, 
Algae, Toad Fish, Smooth browed Bull Bead. 
Tank 4.—Sea Kaven, Bermuda Lobsters, 
Lady Crabs, Spider Crabs, Rock Crabs, Win¬ 
ter Flounder, Pectens, Sheepshead Lebias, 
Algae, Sea Urchins. 
Tank 5.—Wharf fish, or Checsey Black fish, 
Spider Crab, Pectens, Lebias, Algae, Young 
Tantog or Blackfish, Cunner, Sea Urchins. 
Tank 6. — Harvest fish. Star fish, four varie¬ 
ties, Hermit Crabs, Pectens, Algae. 
Tank 7,—Serpula, Living Sponges, Aro- 
mias, Bryozoas. 
Tank 8. — Anemones, four varieties, Algae, 
Livng Corals, Sea Cucumber. 
Tank 9.—Crabs, 7 varieties,'Algae, Shrimp. 
Tank 10.—Young King Crabs, Spider Crabs 
in uniform, Little Hermits, Young Black fish, 
Young Sea Toads, Shrimp, Algae, Young of 
edible Crabs, Fiddler Crabs. 
Tank 11.—Lafayettes, Algae, Sheepshead 
Lebias, Littio Hermit;.. V 
Tank 12.—Sea Horse, Sheepshead Lebias, 
Algae, Serpula, Periwinkle and Spawn. 
FRESH WATER TABLE TANKS. 
Tank 13.—Brook Pickerel. 
Tank 14.—Lake Trout. 
Tank 15.—Toung Brook Trout. 
Tank 16.—Yellow Perch. 
Tank 17.—Banded Proteus.* 
Tank 18.—School of black-nosed Dace. 
Tank 19.—White Perch. 
Tank 20.—common Pond Fish. 
Tank 21.—Long eared Pond fish, and Fresh 
Water Lobster. 
Tank 22.—Hell Benders.* 
Tank 23.—Common Sun fish. 
Tank 24.—Japanese Kingiyo.* 
Tank 25—Pickerel. 
Tank 26.—Brown Cat fish. 
Tank 27.—N. Y. Shiner. 
POST TANKS. 
Tank 28.—Sticklebacks.* 
Tank 29.—Young Cat Fish,Lobster, etc. 
Tank 30.—Dace. 
Tank 31.—Algae, Unio, Munnon. 
Tank 32.—Fresh water Lobster, Dace. 
Tank 33.—Crimson Spotted Triton. 
Tank 34.—Bla<k Headed Dace. 
Tank 35.—Young Salt Water Actinae, Coral, 
Ground Plan of the New York Aquarium, 
SALT WATER SERIES. 
Tank 36.—Sharp-nosed Sturgeon, Blunt- 
nosed Sturgeon, Prickly Skate, Summer 
Skate, Sand Shark, Smooth Dog Fish, Ameri¬ 
can Codling, Lobster, Sea Bass, Black Fish 
or Tautog. 
Tank 37.—Striped Bass, Weak Fish, Cod¬ 
lings, Flounders. 
Tank 38.—Five varieties of Star Fish. 
Tank 39.—Lobsters 
FRESH WATER SERIES. 
Tank 40.—California Salmon, Lake Trout, 
Brook Trout. 
Tank 41.— Yellow Perch, Brook Pickerel. 
Blue Cat-fish, Long-eared Pond fish, common 
Pond fish, Mullett Sucker, Geneva Bass, Rock 
Bass. 
Tank 42.—Carp, Pearl Carp, Golden Carp, 
Mottled Carp. 
Tank 43.—Brown Cat-fish, Common Cat, 
Blue Cat, Fresh Water 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. 
SALT WATER SERIES. 
Tank 44.—Shoal of Striped Bass, Black fish, 
Sea Perch, Blue fish. 
Tank 45.—Lafayette Fish, Flounder, Por¬ 
gies, Young Skate, Black fish, Striped Bass, Cod 
Tank 46.—Tomcod, Blackfish, Striped Bass, 
Manhaden, Lafayette, King Crab. 
Tank 47.—Killi-fish, Tomcod, Toad Fish. 
Tank 48.—Lobster, Lady-crab, Edible Crab, 
Spider Crab, Hermit Crab, Spotted Crab, 
Lobster. 
Tank 46.—Spotted Cod Lings. 
Tank 50.—Rock Cod. 
Tank 51.—Black Sea Bass. 
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Tank 52.—Lobster, Striped Bass, Porgies, 
Lafayette Fish. 
Tank 53.—Brook Trout, Salmon Trout, Cali¬ 
fornia Snlmon. 
Tank 54.—Fish hatching troughs.* 
Tank 55.—Sea Lion. 
Tank 56.—Whale. 
Tank 57.—Seals. 
***The Asterisks that follow many of the 
names contained in the above list, are de¬ 
signed to indicate that the fish thus designated 
is fully described on preceding pages of the 
present issue of this Journal. 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 ap¬ 
pointed assistants, who are constantly in 
ttaendance for the sole purpose of answering 
questions. 
OUR DRAG NET. 
Moral Character of the Oyster. 
In temper he is even mild to placidity, al¬ 
though he is sometimes slightly ruffled, on his 
edges at least. He is quiet always, and usually 
very well behaving; and yet he participates in 
nearly every scene of debauch and revelry. He 
frequents midnight suppers and is the compan¬ 
ion—the bosom companion we may say—of 
wild fellows of every degree, He makes no 
noise, and does no quarreling, but he is present 
in well nigh every riotous company, and is 
found at table with wines and liquors of every 
kind, name and quality. In himself, and so 
far as his personal behavior is concerned, the 
oyster is perfectly respectable, and gentlemen 
and gentlewomen have him at dinner without 
scruple; but there can be no doubt that his 
name is suggestive of dissoluteness and dissi¬ 
pation, precisely as the horse, noble as he is, 
is indissolubly associated in our minds with 
certain forms of knavery and with jockeyism 
“in all its branches” as the street signs say, 
Dickens, we believe it was, who pointed out 
the fact that the monfent that any man falls 
into the poverty which comes of drunkenness 
and idleness, he begins to eat oysters as a 
regular diet, and notwithstanding the high esti¬ 
mation in which the best of us hold this mol-' 
lusk, his name somehow suggests irregularity of 
living, late hours, unwholesome haunts, and 
potations of gin .—Detroit Free Press. 
IDENTITIES. 
Somewhere—in desolate wind-swept space— 
In Twilight-land—in No-man’s-land,— 
Two hurrying Shapes met face to face. 
And bid each other stand. 
“And who are you,” cried one agape. 
Shuddering in the gloamin g light ; 
“ I know not,” said the second Shape, 
“ I only died last night.” 
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