OCEAN GAEDEXS ; 



to the class of animals and plants tliat should be 

 selected in preference for tlie experiments of begin- 

 ners. 



With regard to sea-weed, he observes, do not 

 take Oar- weeds or Tangle ; all the Puci are of a slimy 

 nature, which it is difficult to manage, and as their 

 size is inconyenient, and they have but little beauty, 

 their absence is not to be regretted. 



Of animals, he says, take: — O/* jP/^/^— Blennies, 

 Gobies,'Wrasses. Of Molhisca — Aplysia, Periwinkle, 

 Chitons, Scallops, and Burrowing Bivalves, such 

 as Venus, PuUastra, &c. Of Crustacea — Eurynome, 

 Portunus puber, Carcinus msenas, Ebalia, Corystes, 

 the Paguri, Porcellana platycheles, and the Cran- 

 gones, the Palsemones, that is, Shrimps and Prawns. 

 Of Annelids — Pectenaria, the Sabell^e, and the 

 Serpulse. Of Zoophytes — the Madrepores, and all 

 the Actiniae. 



Pew will establish an Aquarium without deriving 



great mental improvement, and the enlargement of 



their circle of acquirement, in a direction highly 



calculated to develop some of the best and highest 



feelings of our nature. Even the scientific cannot 



fail greatly to enlarge their sphere of knowledge in 



this new, and almost untrodden, field of researchi 



The entomologist, sighing that there are no new 



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