The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet; or Practical Instructions on the Formation, Stocking, and Management, in All Seasons, of Collections of Fresh Water and Marine Life
The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet; or Practical Instructions on the Formation, Stocking, and Management, in All Seasons, of Collections of Fresh Water and Marine Life by Shirley Hibberd, author of “Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste,” etc. etc.
CONTENTS.
Preface.
The Fresh Water Tank
Chapter 1. What is an Aquarium?
Chapter 2. Proper Kinds of Vessels.
Chapter 3. Fitting Up.
Chapter 4. Water Plants for the Aquarium.
Chapter 5. Fishes for the Aquarium.
Chapter 6. Reptiles, Mollusks, and Insects.
Chapter 7. Selection of Stock.
Chapter 8. General Management.
The Marine Tank.
Chapter 1. The Vessel.
Chapter 2. Fitting Up--Materials for the Bottom.
Chapter 3. Collecting Specimens.
Chapter 4. The Plants.
Chapter 5. The Animals.
Chapter 6. What is an Anemone?
Chapter 7. General Management.
The Water Cabinet.
Chapter 1. Construction of Cabinets.
Chapter 2. Collecting and Arranging Specimens.
Chapter 3. The Stock.
Chapter 4. Larva.
Chapter 5. Coleoptera.
Chapter 6. Heteroptera.
Chapter 7. The Frog.--Notes on Management.
Preface.
Every day adds to the popularity of the Aquarium, but every day does not add to the accuracy of the published descriptions of it, or the perspicuity of the directions everywhere given for its formation and maintenance. Lately the periodical press has teemed with essays on the subject; but it does not require a very close scrutiny for the practical man to discern that a majority of such papers express the enthusiasm rather than the knowledge of their authors--a few weeks’ management of a tank seeming to be considered a sufficient qualification for the expounding of its philosophy, though it demands an acquaintance with the minutest details of the most refined departments of botany and zoology to do anything like justice to it.
I have done my best to explain and illustrate the whole _rationale_ of marine and fresh-water tanks in my lately published work, _Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste_; but since that work, owing to the expense incurred in its production, is published at a price which every lover of the Aquarium cannot command, I have thought it no less a duty than a pleasure to treat the subject more briefly, but still practically, and I hope profitably, in a volume of less dimensions and less cost, written for another class of readers.
The object of this little work is to teach the beginner how to proceed safely and pleasurably in setting up aquaria, whether for mere ornament or for the study of the novel forms of animal and vegetable life which these collections enable us to observe closely, no less for the increase of our knowledge of the world, than for the exaltation of our sense of the omnipotence and benignity of Him who created it.
The Nursery, Tottenham.
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CONTENTS.
Preface.
The Fresh Water Tank
Chapter 1. What is an Aquarium?
Chapter 2. Proper Kinds of Vessels.
Chapter 3. Fitting Up.
Chapter 4. Water Plants for the Aquarium.
Chapter 5. Fishes for the Aquarium.
Chapter 6. Reptiles, Mollusks, and Insects.
Chapter 7. Selection of Stock.
Chapter 8. General Management.
The Marine Tank.
Chapter 1. The Vessel.
Chapter 2. Fitting Up--Materials for the Bottom.
Chapter 3. Collecting Specimens.
Chapter 4. The Plants.
Chapter 5. The Animals.
Chapter 6. What is an Anemone?
Chapter 7. General Management.
The Water Cabinet.
Chapter 1. Construction of Cabinets.
Chapter 2. Collecting and Arranging Specimens.
Chapter 3. The Stock.
Chapter 4. Larva.
Chapter 5. Coleoptera.
Chapter 6. Heteroptera.
Chapter 7. The Frog.--Notes on Management.
Preface.
Every day adds to the popularity of the Aquarium, but every day does not add to the accuracy of the published descriptions of it, or the perspicuity of the directions everywhere given for its formation and maintenance. Lately the periodical press has teemed with essays on the subject; but it does not require a very close scrutiny for the practical man to discern that a majority of such papers express the enthusiasm rather than the knowledge of their authors--a few weeks’ management of a tank seeming to be considered a sufficient qualification for the expounding of its philosophy, though it demands an acquaintance with the minutest details of the most refined departments of botany and zoology to do anything like justice to it.
I have done my best to explain and illustrate the whole _rationale_ of marine and fresh-water tanks in my lately published work, _Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste_; but since that work, owing to the expense incurred in its production, is published at a price which every lover of the Aquarium cannot command, I have thought it no less a duty than a pleasure to treat the subject more briefly, but still practically, and I hope profitably, in a volume of less dimensions and less cost, written for another class of readers.
The object of this little work is to teach the beginner how to proceed safely and pleasurably in setting up aquaria, whether for mere ornament or for the study of the novel forms of animal and vegetable life which these collections enable us to observe closely, no less for the increase of our knowledge of the world, than for the exaltation of our sense of the omnipotence and benignity of Him who created it.
The Nursery, Tottenham.
The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet; or Practical Instructions on the Formation, Stocking, and Management, in All Seasons, of Collections of Fresh Water and Marine Life
The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet; or Practical Instructions on the Formation, Stocking, and Management, in All Seasons, of Collections of Fresh Water and Marine Life by Shirley Hibberd, author of “Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste,” etc. etc.
CONTENTS.
Preface.
The Fresh Water Tank
Chapter 1. What is an Aquarium?
Chapter 2. Proper Kinds of Vessels.
Chapter 3. Fitting Up.
Chapter 4. Water Plants for the Aquarium.
Chapter 5. Fishes for the Aquarium.
Chapter 6. Reptiles, Mollusks, and Insects.
Chapter 7. Selection of Stock.
Chapter 8. General Management.
The Marine Tank.
Chapter 1. The Vessel.
Chapter 2. Fitting Up--Materials for the Bottom.
Chapter 3. Collecting Specimens.
Chapter 4. The Plants.
Chapter 5. The Animals.
Chapter 6. What is an Anemone?
Chapter 7. General Management.
The Water Cabinet.
Chapter 1. Construction of Cabinets.
Chapter 2. Collecting and Arranging Specimens.
Chapter 3. The Stock.
Chapter 4. Larva.
Chapter 5. Coleoptera.
Chapter 6. Heteroptera.
Chapter 7. The Frog.--Notes on Management.
Preface.
Every day adds to the popularity of the Aquarium, but every day does not add to the accuracy of the published descriptions of it, or the perspicuity of the directions everywhere given for its formation and maintenance. Lately the periodical press has teemed with essays on the subject; but it does not require a very close scrutiny for the practical man to discern that a majority of such papers express the enthusiasm rather than the knowledge of their authors--a few weeks’ management of a tank seeming to be considered a sufficient qualification for the expounding of its philosophy, though it demands an acquaintance with the minutest details of the most refined departments of botany and zoology to do anything like justice to it.
I have done my best to explain and illustrate the whole _rationale_ of marine and fresh-water tanks in my lately published work, _Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste_; but since that work, owing to the expense incurred in its production, is published at a price which every lover of the Aquarium cannot command, I have thought it no less a duty than a pleasure to treat the subject more briefly, but still practically, and I hope profitably, in a volume of less dimensions and less cost, written for another class of readers.
The object of this little work is to teach the beginner how to proceed safely and pleasurably in setting up aquaria, whether for mere ornament or for the study of the novel forms of animal and vegetable life which these collections enable us to observe closely, no less for the increase of our knowledge of the world, than for the exaltation of our sense of the omnipotence and benignity of Him who created it.
The Nursery, Tottenham.
CONTENTS.
Preface.
The Fresh Water Tank
Chapter 1. What is an Aquarium?
Chapter 2. Proper Kinds of Vessels.
Chapter 3. Fitting Up.
Chapter 4. Water Plants for the Aquarium.
Chapter 5. Fishes for the Aquarium.
Chapter 6. Reptiles, Mollusks, and Insects.
Chapter 7. Selection of Stock.
Chapter 8. General Management.
The Marine Tank.
Chapter 1. The Vessel.
Chapter 2. Fitting Up--Materials for the Bottom.
Chapter 3. Collecting Specimens.
Chapter 4. The Plants.
Chapter 5. The Animals.
Chapter 6. What is an Anemone?
Chapter 7. General Management.
The Water Cabinet.
Chapter 1. Construction of Cabinets.
Chapter 2. Collecting and Arranging Specimens.
Chapter 3. The Stock.
Chapter 4. Larva.
Chapter 5. Coleoptera.
Chapter 6. Heteroptera.
Chapter 7. The Frog.--Notes on Management.
Preface.
Every day adds to the popularity of the Aquarium, but every day does not add to the accuracy of the published descriptions of it, or the perspicuity of the directions everywhere given for its formation and maintenance. Lately the periodical press has teemed with essays on the subject; but it does not require a very close scrutiny for the practical man to discern that a majority of such papers express the enthusiasm rather than the knowledge of their authors--a few weeks’ management of a tank seeming to be considered a sufficient qualification for the expounding of its philosophy, though it demands an acquaintance with the minutest details of the most refined departments of botany and zoology to do anything like justice to it.
I have done my best to explain and illustrate the whole _rationale_ of marine and fresh-water tanks in my lately published work, _Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste_; but since that work, owing to the expense incurred in its production, is published at a price which every lover of the Aquarium cannot command, I have thought it no less a duty than a pleasure to treat the subject more briefly, but still practically, and I hope profitably, in a volume of less dimensions and less cost, written for another class of readers.
The object of this little work is to teach the beginner how to proceed safely and pleasurably in setting up aquaria, whether for mere ornament or for the study of the novel forms of animal and vegetable life which these collections enable us to observe closely, no less for the increase of our knowledge of the world, than for the exaltation of our sense of the omnipotence and benignity of Him who created it.
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| BN ID: | 2940015470970 |
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| Publisher: | Denise Henry |
| Publication date: | 09/08/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 105 KB |
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