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THE thirty-eighth annual report of the New York Zoological Society includes the report of the director of the Aquarium, Mr. Charles M. Breder, Jr., assistant director (June 1934). Some of the larger exhibits, including aquatic mammals, have been discontinued, but there is a larger number of fishes, so that the total number of species and specimens is greater than before. The work of the laboratory for the most part was concerned with studying various details of aquarium operation for the improvement of life conditions of fishes in captivity, including water chemistry, control of parasites and bacteria, food and breeding. A new antiseptic, ‘mesthiolate’, was found to be of distinct value in the control of secondary bacterial infection and in overcoming attacks of the protozoan Costia. Young brine shrimps, Artemia salina, reared from dried eggs supplied by the San Francisco Aquarium Society, have proved an excellent food for the sea-horses and other small fishes. With some little trouble, the shrimps may be raised to a considerable size suitable for larger species.
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The New York Aquarium. Nature 136, 99 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136099d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136099d0