CHAPTER XV. 



COLLECTING OBJECTS TO STOCK THE AQUARIUM. 



Advantage of collecting Objects to stock an Aquarium for yourself— Sea-side 

 Equipment — A Visit to Hurlgate— The Tides— Danger of treading on the Fucus — 

 Crabs under stones— Barnacles troublesome to Naturalists— Botryllus— Eolis — 

 Eolls not a Nudibranchiate — First Rock-pool — Anemones— Sertularia;— Multiplicity 

 of Life In the Ocean— Corkscrew Coralline — Birds-head process— A mile of Star- 

 fish—The 'Whelk— Fresh-water Stock— Visit to Union Hill— Anacharis Canadensis 

 on New York Island — Sunfish, etc. 



Although objects for the purpose of stocking the Aqua- 

 rium can be now purchased in New York city, and may 

 soon be for sale in other of our large cities, still, one 

 of the chief pleasures incident to keeping an Aquarium 

 is the collecting of plants, and securing animals, and in- 

 troducing the same into it, while the healthy exercise which 

 such employment gives, is one great recommendation in 

 this modern fashionable pursuit. 



Let us suppose that our reader, " a citizen of credit and 

 renown" in New York, has procured a tank of such form 

 or dimensions as is best adapted for the position in which 

 it is to be placed, and wishes to. obtain plants and ani- 

 mals to put in it, so as to constitute an Aquarium ; wc 

 will also suppose it to be intended for a marine collection ; 

 how shall he and I equip ourselves, and, when equipped, 



