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Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich believes, he said, that fish can hear, have the ability to learn. He told how he had stood beside his small aquarium, blown a whistle, scattered food to the minnows. Soon, he said, they learned what the whistle meant, would rush to the top with gaping mouths whenever it was blown. Later he procured another whistle of lower tone. He would blow this, then spank the rising fish with a glass rod. Soon they learned the meaning of the new whistle, would cower at bottom when it was blown, but still come...
Fifty years ago last week, seven black-coated women and one man landed in Manhattan from a trans-Atlantic steamship, proceeded to Castle Garden (present site of New York's aquarium), knelt in prayer. Rubberneckers observed that the women's straw hats were circled with crimson ribbons lettered in gold. Later in the week the troupe sang, prayed and sermonized between performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin at Harry Hill's Gentleman's Sporting Theatre, Billiard Parlor & Shooting Gallery in the Bowery. Admission price was 25?. The troupers refused any share of the profits, saying...
...been William K. Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation and where, insouciantly clad in bathing suit, slippers and tennis hat he directed the unloading of his craft...
Last week's show was under the auspices of the Aquarium Society, at the American Museum of Natural History...
Last week, Manhattan Jews gazed resentfully at the groupers in the New York aquarium, and at the placard on the grouper tank. The Christian Century good news had not yet come true. The placard still reads "JEWFISH (Grouper...