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PREFACE. 
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. 
