The Aquarium: Its Inhabitants, Structure & ManagementHardwicke, 1876 - 316 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 22
Page 17
... feet , and it is fitted up with fourteen tanks , each of which contains two hundred gallons of water . Ten tanks are devoted to fresh - water objects , and four to marine . The aquarium at Hamburg , opened in 1864 , has also been very ...
... feet , and it is fitted up with fourteen tanks , each of which contains two hundred gallons of water . Ten tanks are devoted to fresh - water objects , and four to marine . The aquarium at Hamburg , opened in 1864 , has also been very ...
Page 18
... feet long by 70 feet broad , whilst the frontage of the tanks . amounts to 390 feet . There are sixty large tanks exhibited , besides those held as reserve . These con- tain 20,000 gallons of sea water , whilst there is a large storage ...
... feet long by 70 feet broad , whilst the frontage of the tanks . amounts to 390 feet . There are sixty large tanks exhibited , besides those held as reserve . These con- tain 20,000 gallons of sea water , whilst there is a large storage ...
Page 19
... feet long by 40 feet in width , and holds 110,000 gallons of sea water , or nearly as much as that of all the tanks and storage reservoir , included , of the Crystal Palace Aquarium . Indeed , this huge tank is big enough for the ...
... feet long by 40 feet in width , and holds 110,000 gallons of sea water , or nearly as much as that of all the tanks and storage reservoir , included , of the Crystal Palace Aquarium . Indeed , this huge tank is big enough for the ...
Page 20
... feet . Octagonal table tanks are also exhibited , in which the rarer marine zoophytes , & c . , are kept , and where the process of fish - hatching may be seen going on . The most important event which has taken place in the history of ...
... feet . Octagonal table tanks are also exhibited , in which the rarer marine zoophytes , & c . , are kept , and where the process of fish - hatching may be seen going on . The most important event which has taken place in the history of ...
Page 22
... feet in length , by 72 in breadth . At each extremity of the saloon are placed the two largest tanks . These occupy the entire width of the room 40 feet ; so that they are capacious enough to con- tain living animals of considerable ...
... feet in length , by 72 in breadth . At each extremity of the saloon are placed the two largest tanks . These occupy the entire width of the room 40 feet ; so that they are capacious enough to con- tain living animals of considerable ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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.