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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife419181919baus (find matches)
Year: 1918-1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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130 Aquatic mu Goldfish in China They're selling goldfish within the shadow of the great gate of Shanghai shown in the illustration. When Mr. Erwin O. Freund, of the Chicago Aqua- rium Society, told the editor of his inten- tion to prowl through strange lands, he was admonished to keep an eye open for fishes and "make connections." Thus far, in China, nothing has been found to make an American goldfish fancier envious of the Orient. The goldfishes seem little a missionary who has spent twenty years in China. During this time the only gold- fish she saw were common sorts brought by the Chinese pupils to the teachers as gifts. During our talk about fishes Miss Wood told me of an interesting experi- ence in Japan. During the Boxer upris- ing in China many of the missionaries were hurried out of the danger zone and taken to Japan, her objective being Hako- date. Here rooms were secured at one
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more than the average double-tails annu- ally brought from the East in great quan- tities by the Pacific coast importers. In the streets of Shanghai itinerant dealers offer the fishes in spherical globes, with short, narrow neck, so small that a fish can barely be dropped through! Every dealer sells Daphnia. China has ever been a land of mys- teries, and no less so far as goldfish are concerned. Peculiar forms have been described as being bred there, but on information so meagre that a doubt has existed as to their being established breeds. Mrs. Poyser recently entertained place and meals at another. One day, at the restaurant, she was surprised to come upon a gentleman, obviously an Ameri- can, garbed in big hip boots, etcetera, and looking anything but a tourist. She con- cluded he was a farmer, but wondered what an American farmer could be doing in Japan. Later, when an opportunity was afforded to ask the question, the gen- tleman replied that he was sort of a farmer, and extended an invitation to view his produce—a collection of fishes! Then the mystery was solved. The farmer was David Starr Jordan. I won- der if Doctor Jordan recalls this inci- dent!—^. A. P.

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