100 THE MARINE AQUARIUM. 
stock in any variety. I have my readers’ interest only at 
heart when I suggest, that no one should attempt to set 
up an Aquarium without first paying a visit to the estab- 
lishment of Mr. W. Alford Lloyd, of No. 20, Portland 
Road, Regent’s Park, where choice may be made from a 
stock consisting of thousands of specimens, supplied, as, 
the oyster shops say, “fresh every day.” Mr. Lloyd was 
a labourer in the field years before the Aquarium became 
popular, and his experience, attained by patient study, is 
now at the service of all who need advice or assistance in 
any department of the subject. 
IT have no interest in this matter beyond doing justice 
to my reader, and beg to add that Mr. Hall, of City Road, 
has supplied me with marine stock of high character, and 
that I can recommend him as an honest and intelligent 
naturalist, though, on marine matters he will not attempt 
to compete with Mr. Lloyd, for the latter has now the 
name, the trade, and the organization, and since he keeps 
everything, so he can supply everything of the com- 
monest or rarest kind, in the highest condition. 
