64 THE MARINE AQUARIUM. 
stocking with animal life may commence; some of the 
hardy Actinia being the best of all to start with. But if 
the aquarian is in a fever to see something alive in the new 
vessel, he may drop in half-a-dozen Actinia mesembry- | 
anthemum, one day after the introduction of the plants, 
and unless he has made some mistake in the preliminaries 
ACTINIA MESEMBRYANTHEMUM, DYCTYOTA DYCHOTOMA. 
they will do well. I have, for the sake of gaining in- 
formation, placed this anemone in water the instant it was 
| prepared, and without filtering it, without suffering the 
loss of one ; indeed, I have some by me now which a year — 
ago were so operated on; they attached themselves 
directly, and lived through all the trials incident to a new 
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