The Aquarium: Its Inhabitants, Structure & ManagementHardwicke, 1876 - 316 pages |
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... called " bad luck " which are ordinarily experienced in the keeping of aquaria , are due to over - stocking . When a few objects only are kept it is surprising how healthy and vigorous they appear . Moreover , they sooner get tame , or ...
... called " bad luck " which are ordinarily experienced in the keeping of aquaria , are due to over - stocking . When a few objects only are kept it is surprising how healthy and vigorous they appear . Moreover , they sooner get tame , or ...
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... called on account of its still brighter tints of red . When young this species may be domesticated , and kept healthily alive for some time , especially if the surface of the water be covered with aquatic vege- tation , for it is very ...
... called on account of its still brighter tints of red . When young this species may be domesticated , and kept healthily alive for some time , especially if the surface of the water be covered with aquatic vege- tation , for it is very ...
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... called from their bony scales being covered externally with a glossy enamel . The stur- geon belongs to one division of this interesting group , and , notwithstanding its migratory habits , the latter seems to have done well in the ...
... called from their bony scales being covered externally with a glossy enamel . The stur- geon belongs to one division of this interesting group , and , notwithstanding its migratory habits , the latter seems to have done well in the ...
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... called " gar - pike " by the colonists . We hardly need point out the advantages which large aquaria possess in making us acquainted with the life- history of desirable fishes , before we attempt their acclimatisation for ulterior ...
... called " gar - pike " by the colonists . We hardly need point out the advantages which large aquaria possess in making us acquainted with the life- history of desirable fishes , before we attempt their acclimatisation for ulterior ...
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... called the " frustule . " It is divided into two parts , like the body and lid of a pill - box , so that the same species has a very different appearance according to the side which is looked at . These glassy cases or frustules are ...
... called the " frustule . " It is divided into two parts , like the body and lid of a pill - box , so that the same species has a very different appearance according to the side which is looked at . These glassy cases or frustules are ...
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abundant acclimatised aeration alive anemones animals and plants aquarium aquarium keepers aquatic animals aquatic plants attractive body bottom Brighton Brighton Aquarium British species cilia circulation coasts colour common constructed covered crabs creatures crustacea Crystal Palace Crystal Palace Aquarium desmids diatoms dog-fish dorsal fin Dyticus easily eggs favourite feeding feet female fish flat-fishes flesh flowers fresh water fresh-water aquaria gallons gills glass Green Lanes gurnard habits healthy insects interesting keep large aquaria larv¿ latter leaves living Lloyd lobster male Manchester Aquarium marine animals marine aquaria marine tanks means microscopic mollusca mussel natural naturalist oxygen oyster pectoral fins placed plate ponds pretty public aquaria rockwork rotifers salt water sea water sea-anemones sea-weeds seen shells show tanks shrimps smooth newt Southport specimens sponges star-fish stickleback storage reservoirs surface swimming tadpoles tail tints tube usually vegetable vulgaris water fleas whilst whitebait worms wrasses young zoophytes
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Page 302 - Contents — Geological Specimens, by the Editor ; Bones, by EF ELWIN; Birds' Eggs, by T. SOUTHWELL, FZS ; Butterflies, by Dr. KNAGGS ; Beetles, by EC RYE, FZS ; Hymenoptera, by JB BRIDGMAN ; Fresh-water Shells, by Prof.
Page 301 - THE STORIES OF A Piece of Granite. A Piece of Quartz. A Piece of Slate. A Piece of Limestone. A Piece of Sandstone. A Piece of Coal. A Piece of Rock-Salt. A Piece of Jet. A Piece of Chalk. A Piece of Purbeck Marble. A Lump of Clay. A Piece of Lignite. The Crags. A Boulder. A Gravel Pit.
Page 6 - Thence to see my Lady Pen, where my wife and I were shown a fine rarity: of fishes kept in a glass of water, that will live so for ever; and finely marked they are, being foreign.
Page 301 - GEOLOGICAL STORIES: A Series of Autobiographies in Chronological Order. By JE TAYLOR, FLS, FGS Numerous Illustrations. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, 4^.
Page 300 - Beetles and other Insects in the Green Lanes. Shells and Slugs in the Green Lanes. Flowering Plants in the Green Lanes. Grasses in the Green Lanes. Ferns in the Green Lanes. Mosses in the Green Lanes. Fungi in the Green Lanes. Lichens in the Green Lanes. GRASSHOPPER (Gryllus viridissima). Fourth Edition, -with 3OO Illustrations. " Thoroughly English those green lanes are, and make the half-hours spent there something to be remembered till summer doth come again.
Page 12 - ... a very small portion of a tree or shrub generates a considerable quantity of oxygen, there were no reasons to doubt that the influence of the vegetable might serve as a complete compensation for that of the animal kingdom.* The history of the various successful attempts that have been made to construct Marine Aquaria is very interesting.
Page 9 - Fire and hail, snow and vapour, and stormy wind, fulfil his word," and are the necessary agents in completing the scheme of paternal kindness.
Page 172 - In the latter instance these movements are very quiet and uniform, the fish swimming"round their tank in one shoal and one continuous stream. At night, on the contrary, the shoal is entirely broken up, each fish taking an independent path and darting from one side of the tank to the other with an amount of agility scarcely to be anticipated by a mere daylight acquaintance with the species. It was during these active nocturnal movements that the fish struck against the rockwork of their tank and came...
Page 171 - ... to readily take their prepared food from the keeper's hand — a circumstance which would seem to indicate that young fish, like the young of other animals, are more readily susceptible of domestication, adult herrings not being known to display an equal amount of confidence towards those who tend them. The food question being settled, another difficulty presented itself, and this time one that threatened, sooner or later, to accomplish the extermination of the whole shoal. Immediately succeeding...
Page vi - Scotica is now presented to the Public, in the hope that it may be received with as much favour as its predecessor.