The Zoologist — October, 1873. 3705 



1853. On Preserving the Balance between the Animal and Vegetable 

 Organisms in Sea Water. By Robert Warington. Read at the 

 Hull ]\[eeting of the British Association. {Printed in the ' Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History' for November, 1853, and at 

 p. 4118 of the ' Zoologist' for 1853.) 



1853. Aqua-vivarium. An article by Dr. Edwin Lankester. {Printed in 

 the Natural History Division of the 'English Encyclopedia.') 



1853. A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast. By Philip Henry 



Gosse. 452 pp. letter-press and 28 plates, most of them coloured. 



1854. The Aquarium ; an Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea. 



By Philip Henry Gosse. 278 pp. letter-press, 6 coloured plates, 



and 6 engravings on wood. 

 1856. Tenby; a Sea-side Holiday. By Philip Henry Gosse. 400 pp. 



letter-press and 23 plates, most of them coloured. 

 1858. The Aquarian Naturalist ; a Manual for the Sea-side. By Thomas 



Rymer Jones. 524 pp. letter-press and 8 coloured plates. 

 1860. Actinologia Britannica; a History of the British Sea Anemones 



and Corals. By Philip Henry Gosse. 362 pp. letter-press and 



1 1 plates, 10 of them coloured. 



These delightful works abounded with lucid descriptions, 

 pleasing pictures, poetic quotations, and graphic accounts of the 

 doings of aquatic animals as first seen by the assistance of the 

 aquarium: nothing can exceed the beauty of some of the word- 

 painting by Philip Henry Gosse; and as for Thomas Rymer 

 Jones, he is overflowing with poetry : no less than one hundred 

 and sixty-two quotations, or as I may call them " snatches of 

 song," are scattered through his "pleasant pages." He seems to 

 have been so led away by his subject that he could not resist the 

 impulse to break forth into melody. 



A complete change had now taken place in the element as well 

 as in the style of treating of it, the water employed for the experi- 

 ments during the first era being almost invariably fresh, during the 

 second period almost entirely salt: the object during the first era 

 was almost entirely confined to the habits of the living tenants of 

 the aquarium ; during the second period, the fashion, admeasure- 

 ments, size, materials, structure and ornamentation entered largely 

 into aquarian literature ; indeed these matters, utterly ignored by 

 Bowerbank and his followers, became of paramount importance. 

 Mr. Gosse says: — 



"The tank is 2 feet long, Ih foot wide, Ih foot deep; the sides and 

 the ends of y^^th plate-glass ; the bottom of slate, the corners of beech 



