JONES S AQUARIAN NATURALIST. 1EE 
can only repeat what we said of the first edition, with greater 
emphasis, that ‘ we should be glad to see a copy in the hands 
of every medical student and every medical practitioner in 
the kingdom.” 
The Aquarian Naturalist ; a Manual for the Sea-side. By 
Tuomas Rymer Jones. London: Van Voorst. 
Havine been indebted to the politeness of the publisher 
for a copy of this elegant drawing-room volume, we have 
pleasure in directing the attention of those for whose benefit 
it is intended to its numerous attractions, though unable to 
perceive that the Author has made much use of the micro- 
scope in any researches which can be regarded as novel 
in it. 
From anything contained in the volume we should be 
taclined to suppose that the greater part of the more recent 
results of microscopic research has remained unknown or 
unnoticed by Professor R. Jones. We regret, also, to have 
to remark a general absence of that due acknowledgment of 
the source whence much of his matter and many of his 
illustrations are drawn, which should always be made even 
in a popular work. Sir J. G. Dalzell’s name, though occa- 
sionally noticed, certainly does not occur so frequently as it 
ought, nor, as it seems to us, have his figures been much 
improved in their transference to Professor Jones’s pages, 
effected, though it has been, by the usually very skilful hand 
of Tuffen West. 
It is “splitting straws” to cavil about the title of a pro- 
fessedly popular work like the present; but we may, at least, 
be allowed to remark, that even Professor Jones is paying his 
“lady friends” a poor compliment, in supposing that they 
will not be sufficiently alive to the fact, that the ‘ Aquarian 
Naturalist’ does not contain what might at least be expected 
in it, some instructions as to the proper way of treating the in- 
habitants of a marine Aquarium ; and that his book, in fact, 
contains merely a series of remarks upon certain creatures 
selected apparently at random among the numerous tribes 
which inhabit the ocean; some of which are more or less 
fitted to become the pets of an Aquarium, whilst others 
are wholly incapable of such domestication. But those 
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