Evening star., 1897-07-31

rent of water is circulated through the
upper portion of each box, the live eggs
passing through the siphon into the adj
joining box, and then the remaining water
is drawn off and the worthless eggs re-
moved before new supply is placed in the
hatchery.
Collections In the Museum.
Across the hall from the Matching room
is the museum. containing remarkable
collection of fish in alcohol, as well as
large collection of native fish-eating birds
and sea weeds. OF the many hundred speci-
mems of fish in jars. the most conspicuous
and interesting were the sea ravens, moon
fish, skates sting rays, sharks, including
the curious hammer-hedded shark: conger
eel an enormous specimen us large as
mans thigh; ccd, hake, haddock and other
food fishes: the remarkable oceanic tile
fish. exterminated by natural causes: lump
fish, goose fish, or angler, with its huge
mouth; the remora, or sucking fish, para
site on the shark; f1atfish and founders ga
lore. torpedo, cramp fish, so named for
their electric properties; the Portuguese
nian-of-war with its curious floating air
sack, acting on the water as a sail; squid
and devil fish, A fine variety of marine
invertebrate animals, cucumberS anemo-
nes, sponges. crabs, shrimp prawn, jelly
fish. mollusks, sea fans and feathers
and sea weeds of rare beauty and coloring
are also seen here.
The collection of fish-eating birds in the
vicinity of Woods Holl is very complete.
comprising, as it does. the beautiful Amer
lean elder duck and king elder, the curious
loon, or great northern diver, and the
smaller red-thrOated merganser, the COM
non putin, with its capacious bill: the
lorg-tailed jaeger, parasitic and pomaine
Jaeger, sheerwaters, gannets, INJURIES, auks
and other similar birds. The romantic
stormy petrol, or Mother Carey's chicken,
so familiar to the traveller at sea; numer-
Gus varieties of cormorants. ducks. herons,
kingfishers phalaropes and terms; the great
herring gull. or sea gull. and kittiwakes
and other gulls are of great interest to the
sportsman.
Passing from the museum into the aquari-
um, the attention is at once attracted by
the curious sea robin. with its peculiar
hand-like fingers. crawling along the bot
tom and sides of the tanks, and instantly
changing color from white to black or vice
versa. Among the other fish swimming In
the aquarium were fine specimens of the
tautog, sea bass, chogset. soup, white
perch, mummichogs, swell fish, toad fish.
hake and the slow-moving Holsters, from
the largest size to the baby Holsters just
from the hatchery. In the aquarium out
side the buildings were forty hungry-look-
ing sharks or dog fish, swimming rapidly
around the irclosure. The government may
well be proud of it's work at this important
station. and apart from the beauty of it's
surroundings it is well worth visit. The
view of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
sound from the observation tower on NObs-
ka Point is one Of the features of Woods
Holl. and forms a charming marine pano-
rama.
Nearing His Destination.
Off again by the afternoon boat, we re-
crossed to New Bedford as a shower OBJ
scured the land from view, but on arrival
We courageously pushed on toward our
journeys end fifty-four miles distant, un-
til. after several hours hard riding over
the muddy and uneven roads. we were
compelled to halt at dusk by the breaking
or a heavy storm when only a few miles
from Taunton and twenty-three miles from
New Bedford by the road we had followed
over this rolling country. 1t was too wet
shelter Of big, New England barn. where
We were cozily quartered for the rest of the
night We were determined to reach Bos-
ton on the morrow without regard to the
existing gale, but we were too tired to
worry about that, and a soft hay NOV is
not SO bad after all.
OTIS B. GOODALL.