The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
NOTES or THE QEARfCM
The striped Bass Exhibit Zig Leap or q
Little Salmon.

Word was received last week at the New
York aquarium from the Brighton aquarium
In England of the safe arrival there OF SIX
horseshoe crabs. three pairs. shipped from
here recently. This crlstacean, so tamillar
on this side of the Atlantic from Maine to
the Gulf of Mexico, is not found in Euro
! pean waters
Three striped bass that had lived in
wall tank from the time they were first
brought to the aquarium on Nov. 10. 1885,
then young fish weighing half pound or
thereabouts apiece, were on Tuesday.
grown now to be fishes Of g. and pounds
respectively, transferred to the striped
bass pool, in whose waters they came INTO
the company of the aqiiariums very notable
and noble lot of striped bass composed OF
fishes that are now in their tenth year here.
From seven-foot tank to a tweni weight
foot pool was great and delightful change
for the bass from the tank, and they struck
of at once to explore their new and larger
home, followed by some of the pools older
inhabitants that evidently regarded these
newcomers among them with curiosity,
The aquarium received last week, taken
on the fishing banks. a Portuguese man
of-war, the first of this species of jellyfi>h
ever exhibited here. 1t had been injured
in taking and it lived only two or three
days after its capture, but during that
time it remained with its pink crest and deep
blue tips an object of beauty
gether with lot OF the littlest tadpo'es.
these partly developed into frogs. have
lately been received at the Aquarium. the
curious little creatures having been taken
tadpoles. with the frog legs already starting
out. are perhaps three quarters OF an inch
in length; the perfect frogs are even smaller.
The tiny frogs are very black, nave bodies
that, without actually measuring them,
would seem to he about three-eighths of an
inch long, or less: the frog from end to end
Of its extended legs. measuring perhaps
five-eighths of an inch in length These
remarkable little frogs look, at a little dis
tance. like so many small black bugs, but
frogs with all the familiar frog character
istcs.
All salmon are great jumpers, but II is
doubtful il any of the family could do any
better in that way than the little Atlantic
and half inches in length, now in the
Of the tank, up over the top of vertical
stone, the top Of this screen being twenty
inches above the water. To clear the screen
this little salmon had to rise in the air al
least four times its own length.
The great swapping turtle from the Miss
issippi River received at the Aquarium
in December last. which, weak and greatly
emaciated when received. died few
days later, has been mounted an
exhibit, and placed in the Aquarium's
laboratory Tie giant snapper makes
a very remarkable mounting. 1t was per-
haps the biggest swapping turtle OF which
there is record. measuring as it did from
the tip Of its beak to the tip Of its tail
four feet seven and half inches, It's
largest claws we're an inch and three
quarters in length.
Some Of its claws had been worn down
TO the butts, and it presented OF her evidence
Of extreme old age. How long swapping
turtles live is not known.