Excerpt from The Aquarium, Vol. 3: April, 1895 This system, in addition, enables to supply to the specimens the different densities of seasoned sea-water, and also allows control of the temperature of same. The utter weakness of the old system was quite apparent during our visit for the Bay being full of ice, the temper ature of the water in the tanks was down almost to freezing. To keep tropical fishes or plants in such water is out of the question. But this might easily be corrected, as there is a cellar under the old guard-room where stor age tanks might be placed. Not quite so easy, however, would it be to recon struct some of the tanks in order to give greater depth to them, or to other wise change their shape to enable effect ive decorations to show the peculiar characteristics of the different speci mens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.