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It would serve no purpose to describe the varied and 

 everchanging inhabitants of the tanks at the Crystal Palace and 

 Sbton; they must be seen m order to be appreciated New 

 forms of life are being daily added to the collections and it is 

 hoped that many questions of fish life and f o't^/^^J , J«^ 

 solved by those whose duty it is to watch the daily We of the 

 inhabitants of these « ichthyological menageries if J may b? 

 Slowed such a term. It may be interesting, by the by to note 

 herrthat in America they have started traveUing shows of 



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living fish, which visit the inland towns, and delight hundreds 

 X neve^ before saw a lobster or an aquatic sheep's head I 

 r not undervalue the study of fancy fishes, and no doubt 

 Tt interests a large number of miscellaneous visitors to view 

 llThors:, theSutter-fish and f- cunosjie^^f marine 

 life- but I am in hopes that real good work will yet De 

 acHeved by means of these aquaria, and that many points 



