CHAPTER III 
CABINET VIVARIA 
The heart is hard in nature, and unfit 
For human fellowship, as being void 
Of sympathy, and therefore dead alike 
To love and friendship both, that is not pleased 
With sight of animals enjoying life, 
Nor feels their happiness augment his own. 
Cowper 
D OMESTIC vivaria may be of many kinds for the gratification of many 
tastes, and as aids to the acquirement of a knowledge of Natural 
History. It is not intended here to present even the faintest sketch of the 
possible extensions of the idea on which the aquarium is founded, but it 
would be a too summary method of procedure to omit mention, at least, of a 
few groups of animals that possess peculiar attraction for the home student. 
Amongst those which will be likely first to claim attention after the 
