
98 THE AQUARIUM, APRIL, 1897. 
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the Chinese’ adorned their houses and | The aquarium of those days was of 
gardens with aquariums, the old Egyp- course quite different from the aqua- 
tians and the noble Romanshad theirs, | riumof the present. The manufacture 
in which they cultivated choice water- | of sheet-glass not being invented then, 























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AQUARIUM ON CABINET STAND. 
plants and fish. During the middle | the tanks containing the collections 
ages we find rare and beautiful fishes | were basins formed of costly stones or 
and acuatic plants in precious basinsin | china, and the contents could only be 
the famous castles of Europe. | viewed from above. 
