The Archive · 1927

John Shedd, of Marshall Field

Ca. has given the mosey for the aquarium. The building will house 131 exhibition tanks which will contain a greater variety of fis. than riks will range in capacity} to 13,500 gallons of water. with a total capacity of about! £50,000 gallers. La addition there will be about 80 tanks in which al reserve supply of fish for replace ment will be kept. Approximately 900 lineal fect of glass will be used for the tanks. "Two great reservoirs will be built, with a capacity of 2,000,000 gallons of water—half fresh and half salt.

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