RIVER GARDENS, ETC. 



a hand than that of the great and accomplished 

 R/ubens, in which a lobster, scrambling from the 

 heavily filled net as it is drawn up, is also painted a 

 magnificent scarlet. 



It will be seen, by the contents of the foregoing 

 chapters, that the fresh- water Aquarium is able to 

 afford as many attractive sources of interest as the 

 marine, notwithstanding the Sea Anemones and 

 richly coloured Algce, which have made the salt- 

 water tank so generally attractive. It is calculated 

 at the same time to awaken an interest in natural 

 history, in a province more generally accessible 

 than the shores of the ocean ; for every brook, every 

 pond, every ditch is filled with the curious and beau- 

 tiful forms of animal and vegetable life respecting 

 which the fresh- water Aquarium has awakened new 

 or dormant interests ; interests which are all the 

 more likely to meet with further extension, as the 

 fields for additional investigation are open to all 

 who have a pond in their garden, or even a small 

 brook running through the neighbouring meadows. 



THE END. 



London : Thomas Uarrild, Printer, 11, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street. 



