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and we confess that we view these little silvery crea- 

 tures with a more lively interest than perhaps any 

 other object in the Exhibition. It has been finely 

 observed by a great medical author, the late Doctor 

 Graves — a distinguished light in our City lately de- 

 parted from amongst us — " there is,'' he says, " more 

 to strike and impress the mind in one atom that has 

 life, than in a whole revolving mass of inert matter." 

 Here in our Exhibition these little fishes present 

 themselves as the starting point, in a novel and use- 

 ful discovery. We here recognise and have before 

 us, a new fact just added to our store of natural sci- 

 ence, inviting all who visit our Exhibition, with in- 

 quiring minds, to enter upon and follow up this 

 hitherto unexplored path. — Who shall say, to what 

 useful results these living specimens here exhibited 

 in this vase may herald the way ? Who will say, 

 that lasting benefits to mankind, in the increase of 

 food, may not originate from this display in our Na- 

 tional Exhibition of these little fishes, propagated by 

 new methods, by the aid of art ? 



