Applique ( ap pli ka )

[Fr.] Any ornament cut out and applied to another surface, in cloth, wood or metal. Also, a piece of work thus ornamented. Aqua'ria, n . pl . In addition to small aquaria, described under AQUARIUM, there have been instituted in modern years numerous public and scientific aquaria which call for some further mention. The first of these was that erected at the London Zoological Gardens in 1852. Many others have succeeded, usually in the vicinity of the ocean, but sometimes inland, as in the case of the Berlin Aquarium, in which a large collection of marine animals is maintained at a considerable distance from the sea. The aquarium connected with the Naples Zoological Station has been of particular value, in enabling students of science to investigate the habits and life histories of marine plants and animals. The aquarium in the Jardin d'Acclimation at Paris, constructed in 1860, is 150 feet long and 36 feet wide. Among the most notable of European aquaria are those at Amsterdam and at Brighton, England, in which large collections of fish and other marine creatures are well displayed. In the U. S. a notable aquarium was exhibited in 1893 in the Fisheries Building, at the Chicago Exposition, 1000 miles inland. In 1896 one was opened in New York, on the old Castle Garden site, which, from its proximity to the sea, is likely to become of much public and scientific interest.