The Zoologist— October, 1873. 3701 



Official Handbook to the Marine Aquarium of the Crystal 

 Palace Aquarium Company (Limited) . By W. A. Lloyd, 

 Supeiinteudent of the Aquarium. Fifth Edition, revised and 

 enlarged. 1873. 



(Continued from S. S. 3676.) 



Era II. Literary, Poetic and Fashionable. 



In this second era or campaign, as I may call it, Mr. (now 

 become Dr.) Bovverbauk resigned the command, which, like 

 Alexander's, was divided amongst four of his generals, Waringtou, 

 Gosse, Mitchell and Rymer Jones. 



Mr. Robert Warington, of Apothecaries' Hall, not only devoted 

 every spare moment of his life to experimenting on different forms 

 of vessel, different arrangements of light, and different combinations 

 of inhabitants, in order to ascertain the fittest, but he introduced a 

 new element, substituting salt water for fresh, marine animals for 

 fresh-water animals, sea-weeds for Valisneria. I was a constant 

 visitor at Apothecaries' Hall, and found Mr. Warington ever ready 

 to exhibit and explain his experimental proceedings, for it must be 

 admitted they were experimental ; for unlike Mr. Bowerbank, who 

 seems to have attained success at a single bound, Mr. Warington 

 had to think out his plans, and as his was altogether new ground, 

 or rather new water, he was subject to repeated failures and 

 disappointments, but eventually he triumphed over them all. 



At our delightful reunions at Mr. Bowerbauk's, first at Critchell- 

 place and afterwards at Highbury, the lamented David William 

 Mitchell, then the energetic Secretary of the Zoological Society, 

 who was ever on the alert for something to " draw," was a frequent 

 visitor ; the sticklebacks arrested and rivetted his attention, and he 

 was not long in taking a lesson from Mr.Bowerbank's book : every 

 one urged it; and Mr. Mitchell listened with marked attention, and 

 conceived the project of an aquarium in the Regent's Park. With 

 Mr. Mitchell there was seldom much time lost between the con- 

 ception and the execution of a plan. In this instance these followed 

 each other with unparalleled rapidity ; he commenced building 

 forthwith, ordered his tanks, and stocked them with their appro- 

 priate inhabitants, availing himself of every observation previously 

 made either by Mr. Bowerbank or Mr. Warington. 



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