PREFACE. 



HAVING taken considerable interest in the 

 domestic culture of plants and animals in water, 

 and written the article " Aquavivarium " for the 

 English Cyclopaedia, I was induced, at the request 

 of the Publisher, to put together the following 

 remarks. I have done so in the hope that they 

 will in some manner contribute to make the pre- 

 vailing taste for establishing domestic Aquavivaria 

 subservient to the teaching of Natural History, 

 and the study of God's Works. 



E. L. 



8, SAVILE Bow, 

 September 2Gtk, 1856. 



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