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Ocean Gardens. The History of the Marine Aquarium: and the best methods now adopted for its establishment and preservation. — John Shaqi

Ocean Gardens. The History of the Marine Aquarium: and the best methods now adopted for its establishment and preservation.Humphreys, Henry Noel

History

Ocean Gardens. The History of the Marine Aquarium: and the best methods now adopted for its establishment and preservation.

Name: Ocean Gardens. The History of the Marine Aquarium: and the best methods now adopted for its establishment and preservation.
Author: Humphreys, Henry Noel

Humphreys, Henry Noel

Aquariums

Taking these dimensions into consideration, it will be easy to conceive,
when the following list of specimens which Mr. Gosse introduced into his
Aquarium is examined, that his population was too dense for the extent
of his province, although the space might not have appeared too much
filled for picturesque effect. Of vegetable specimens, he introduced at
once the following:—

              1. A tuft of _Furcellaria fastigiata_.
              2. Two of _Rhodymenia palmata_.
              3. One of _Dictyota dichotoma_.
              4. A small _Fucus serratus_.
              5. One _Laminaria digitata_.
              6. Two tufts of _Padina pavonia_.
              7. Several masses of _Corallina officinalis_.
              8. _Griffithsia setacea._
              9. _Delesseria alata._
             10. _Plocamium coccineum._
             11. _Phylophora rubens._
             12. _Zostera marina._

In a few days the water, poured carefully to these specimens, became
clear as pale green crystal, the green tinge being too slight to obscure
the colour of any object seen through its medium.

From these weeds alone, before any supply of Zoöphytes or Molluscs were
intentionally added, a whole host of minute animal life swarmed forth;
some, doubtless, issuing from eggs newly hatched; others from the
shelter of the matted ramifications of some of the sea-weeds, in which
they had been taken, as in a net. Among these swarming creatures were
Annelids of the genus _Syllis_, _Rissoæ_, and other minute shell-fish,
but principally _Isopodous_ and _Entomostracous Crustacea_, many of them
being so minute as not to be perceived without the use of a powerful
lens.

Of the animals next placed in this tank, of only two feet by one foot
six inches, the following is the list given:—

                                 FISH.

    1. Fifteen, Spined Stickleback   _Gasterosteus spinachia_.
    2. Seven, Gray Mullet (young)    _Mugil capito_.
    3. One, Black Goby               _Gobious niger_.
    4. One, Corkwing                 _Crenilabrus cornubicus_.
    5. One, Five-bearded Rockling    _Motella 5-cirrata_.
    6. One, Great Pipe-fish (young)  _Syngnathus acus_.
    7. One, Worm Pipe                _Syngnathus lumbriformis_.

                        SHELLS, MOLLUSCS, ETC.

    1. Two, Ashy Top                 _Trochus cinerarius_.
    2. One, Navel Top                _Trochus umbilicatus_.
    3. Three, Common Periwinkle      _Littorina littorea_.
    4. Three, Yellow Periwinkle      _Littorina littoralis_.
    5. One, Purple                   _Purpura lapillus_.
    6. One, Scrobicularia.
    7. One, Anomia.
    8. Two, Common Cockle            _Cardium edule_.
    9. Two, Ascidia.

                            CRUSTACEA, ETC.

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