Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
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San Francisco, Friday Feb 18.
The Steinhart Aquarium is a building specially built for the purpose and is the second quarter one in America. Have a great array of fresh water and marine fish, but nothing of marine invertebrates. Modern speciality of little aquariums -- "tablet aquariums" -- for home use and show about all the kinds of small fish that can live in those confined quarters. All have lots of plants but just enough to supply the oxygen needed by the fishes.
The Zoological (Mammals and Birds) collection of the Cal. Acad. of Sci. is very fine and is modern taxidermy at it's best. The accessories and painted back grounds are as fine as any in this work. These are all in darts alcoves around to walls and lifted artifices. The case exhibits on top floor are a little of everything and nothing in special. Rather to please than to instruct.
S.A. to Berkeley at 5 P.M. Put up at the Carlton Hotel, a charming house.