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limit to the number which may be healthily maintained and exhibited.

We have had the great advantage of having the following pages overlooked by Mr. W. A. Lloyd, of the Crystal Palace, to whom our best thanks are due for many valuable suggestions.

The work is now presented to the public in the hope that it may add to the educational effects of our public aquaria, and be the means of rendering the education in zoology more popular and exten

sive.

IPSWICH, September 21, 1876.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

THE HISTORY OF AQUARIA.

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Works of P. H. Gosse The Origin of Species'— Fish sup-
plies - Royal Commission on Fisheries Ova of cod and
whiting, how deposited - Discovery in Brighton Aquarium
Saville-Kent on history of common herring — Dr. Gunther
on "whitebait". Professor Sars on cod ova - - Mr. Lloyd on
herring culture Herring in Manchester Aquarium — Young
of crawfish (Phyllosoma) - Hamburg Aquarium -- Growth
of salmon Mr. Jackson on salmon-trout — Ancient fish-
ponds — Roman piscina — Red mullet Cost of Roman fish-
ponds - Chinese fish-culture- Medieval fish-culture - An-
tiquity of the pike— Fish-food of the thirteenth century
The edible frog The common frog - The life-scheme of
our globe

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CHAPTER II.

HISTORY OF AQUARIA-continued.

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Priestley's discovery of oxygen Trembley and his Hydras
Sir John Dalyell - The Bordeaux Aquarium — Dr. Daubeny
on plants and animals — Dr. N. B. Ward's experiments on
aquaria Dr. Johnston's zoophytes — Mrs. Anna Thynne
Mr. R. Warington's experiments on aquaria — Mr. Gosse's
ditto Works of Mr. Gosse― Aquaria at Surrey Zoological
Gardens and Dublin ditto Dr. Ball's contrivance for

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Oblong tank for window
Cement for joining sides of
Materials for rockwork

Where materials can be purchased — Details of cheap aquarium
- Bell-glasses - Dr. Lankester's 'Aquavivarium '- Flower-
stand with bell-glass aquarium
aquaria Polygonal tanks
tanks Rockwork of tanks
Fresh-water plants for tanks - Duckweeds - Mud and sand
for fresh-water aquaria - Deodorisation of aquaria - How
to prepare aquatic plants for aquaria · Stock animals for

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ditto - How to remove decaying objects from ditto — How
to feed aquatic animals — Best food for ditto — How aquaria
get wrong Means of putting aquaria right — “ Conva-
lescent ” glass — Best plants for ditto - Circulating fresh-
water aquaria — How to keep aquaria perpetually healthy

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Over-stocking aquaria -Yellow-spotted salamanders - Mexican
Axolotl — Great water newt — Superstitions regarding ditto
- Male and female of ditto · - Smooth newt - Habits of
ditto — Habits of great warty newt — Tadpoles of smooth
newt — Development of ditto — Food of ditto — Straight-
lipped warty newt Palmated smooth newt
frogs and toads — Goldfishes and their food — Three-spined
sticklebacks — Nest-building habits of ditto — Rough-tailed
stickleback — Miller's thumb — The loach - Food of loach
and gudgeon - The minnow — The pope". Common
perch — Common and Prussian carp — The bleak — Scales
of ditto — Roach and dace — The “rudd ” — The pike —
Dr. Lankester on ditto — Silurus glanis — Introduction of
ditto in English rivers — Ganoid fishes — The bony pike —
Acclimatisation of foreign fishes

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Circulatory system of aerating large aquaria — Mr. Kent on
fungoid growth upon fishes - Probable cause of ditto —
Selection of aquatic plants for ornamental purposes — The
mare's tail — Canadian weed (Anacharis) — Vallisneria —
Flowers of ditto — Water lilies — Water plantain — Arrow-
head — Flowering rush — Forget-me-not-Water mint —

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