22 Life Beneath the Waves. 



"fixes" do not, as a rule, "become small 

 by degrees and beautifully less" when un- 

 duly considered and brooded over, I will 

 no longer dwell upon the one now in hand, 

 but decide to limit myself, in the follow- 

 ing pages, to the description and delinea- 

 tion of some of the submarine animals 

 which have from time to time occupied my 

 own small Aquaria. 



For some few years I have contributed 

 short papers on. these subjects to the well 

 known and popular magazine the Chat- 

 terbox : with the kind permission of the 

 editor, parts of these contributions are 

 now reprinted in this little work. 



