THE STUDENT'S AQUARIUM. 



INTRODUCTION. 



THE reader of this little treatise on the Aquarium may 

 want to know How much of it is Theory and How much 

 Practice? and when I reply and say it is all solid, hard 

 earned experience, they may feel interested enough to know 

 where I received such experience. 



I was brought up from infancy in one of the principal 

 branches of Natural History : as a boy I collected shells and 

 operculums for Messrs. Bryce Wright and George Sowerby of 

 London, England, who were acknowledged to be the greatest 

 conchologists that England has had ; since which I have been 

 connected more or less with all the Aquariums and Zoological 

 Institutions in Europe. The two years of 1877-78 I served with 

 The Great New York Aquarium ; in 1880 I was the manager 

 of one of the most successful exhibitions of dogs, poultry, rab- 

 bits, pigeons, birds, cats and monkeys held in the South Coast 

 of England under the patronage of England's nobility, and at 

 different periods of my life I have had in charge in some way 

 or another nearly all the known varieties of animal life, and in 

 a great many instances have captured them myself or have 



