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PEEFACE. 



WHEN I commenced this little work I did 

 not intend to have it published until some- 

 what later in the year, when the Brighton 

 Aquarium will be completed and open to 

 the public. But after taking into con- 

 sideration the fact that most people visit 

 the seaside during the summer and autumn 

 months, it does not seem to me advisable to 

 delay the production of my endeavours to 

 excite feelings of interest respecting the in- 

 habitants of the ocean. 



And I trust that my brief accounts of some 

 of these submarine animals, and the descrip- 

 tion of the Brighton Aquarium in its finished 



