NEW AQUARIUM AT LONDON ZOO

Shannon News, 30 January 1923, Page 4

NEW AQUARIUM AT LONDON ZOO

Work ha's now been started on the jiew aquarium- at the Zoo, and it should bo ready for next August's crowds.

It is to be a wonder-building, some 400 ft. long, "under the Mappin terrace. The centre-gangway, through which the public will pass, will be in darkness. Ranged •on either side there will be fifty ( or more glass-covered tanks — fresh water, salt water, and tropical — illuminated from the outside so as to give the greatest prominence to the ( movements of the fish. The floor is to)

be of rubber, to minimise noise and dis- ( tnrbance by visitors. j

I*n short, it should be a magic submarine grotto, which will particularly fascinate the children. Rocks and submarine plants are to make the habitat of the under-water creatures as realistic as possible.

Periodic supplies of salt Avatcr will bo brought from the North Sea by way of the Regent's Canal. The structure will cost from £60,000 to £70.000, and provide work for 250 men on the site, as well as others engaged in preparing the tanks.