The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 200
uccess ofthe Crystal Palace Aquarium(the most successful one inexistence), only, instead of afoot-pan there is an immensereservoir, and instead ofbottles there are tanks ofglass and brick and slate,and instead of filling thelatter by hand, they are pumped into by a steam-engine. AndI was just as… … A year or two later, in another part of the same neighbourhood, but close by, I find, on referring to the MicroscopicalJournal for July, 1855, that I had so far increased my collec-tion as to keep forty species- of living marine animals, andthat some of my vessels held as much as three gallons…
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