The Book of the Marine Aquarium or Practical Instructions on the Formation, Stocking, and Management in All Seasons, of Collections of Marine and River Animals and Plants
The Book of the Marine Aquarium or Practical Instructions on the Formation, Stocking, and Management in All Seasons, of Collections of Marine and River Animals and Plants
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ... crustaceans specially adapted to the purpose of the Aquarium are the following: --The sandhopper, (Talitrus, ) common prawn, (Palcemon serratus, ) common shrimp, Ebalia Pennantii, Pagurus Bemhardus, the common hermit crab, (P. Prideauxii, ) PorceUana platycheles. Portunus puber, Carcinas mcenas, Cancer pagurus, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ... crustaceans specially adapted to the purpose of the Aquarium are the following: --The sandhopper, (Talitrus, ) common prawn, (Palcemon serratus, ) common shrimp, Ebalia Pennantii, Pagurus Bemhardus, the common hermit crab, (P. Prideauxii, ) PorceUana platycheles. Portunus puber, Carcinas mcenas, Cancer pagurus, and Maia squinado, the spinuous spider crab. This list will doubtless be very largely extended as the system of keeping crustaceans in grouped collections is more generally adopted. Of the mollusks and true fishes numerous remarks have already been made incidentally, and as they do not largely enter into the catalogue of generally useful subjects, it is unnecessary for me to swell the bulk of this work by special notes upon them. It is to the great family of Zoophytes we must continue to look for our supplies of specimens, and, after all the attractions of lively and tameable creatures, what is called ground stock forms the staple article. Southey unintentionally sums up in a few lines the leading attractions of the Marine Aquarium: --"Here too were living flowers, Which like a bud comparted Their purple lips contracted And now in open blossoms spread, Stretched like green anthers many a seeking head. And arborets of jointed stone were there, And plants of fibres fine as silk-worms' thread, Yea, beautiful as mermaids golden hair, Upon the waves dispread." The Aquarium introduces us to new scenes hitherto hidden from our view, makes us acquainted with the economy of creatures of whose very existence many of us, not altogether unlearned in the history of the world, were previously ignorant. Their habits of feeding, of moving, and burrowing; their battles, their changes of form, the display even of a strange intelligence, working its way by wonder...
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