The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 202
two smallgold-fish. The plants grew, decayed, and caused turbidness inthe water and a quasi-spontaneous growth of a minute greenplant (Conferva) on the sides of the vessel and the surface ofthe water. To remedy this Warington introduced some phyto-phagous snails, Linnea and Planorbis, which… … ONE OF MY FAILURES. In January, 1852, Warington began making a sea-water aqua-rium at the same place, Apothecaries Hall, and in November,1853, he narrated his experiments in print. He obtained hissea-water from a Billingsgate oyster-boat; and on the best kindof plants to use for purifying purposes…
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