HOW TO BRING YOUR SPECIMENS TO TOWN. 
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HOW TO BRING TOUR SPECIMENS TO TOWN. 
The vegetable contents of the aquarium are transported easily enough. 
A good supply of the brown sea-weed, called “wrack” by the fishermen, 
to wrap them in, and care in seeing that each specimen is attached to its 
original rock, or stone, will generally insure your treasures arriving in good 
condition at their inland destination, though it be two days’ journey distant 
from their sea-side home. But with the animals more care must be taken. 
The best method is to procure two or three glass or earthen jars, about ten 
inches in height, and six or seven in diameter. Fill this three parts full 
{not more) with good sea-water, as shortly before your departure as you can; 
have a close-fitting lid, or a bladder, over the mouth of each jar. Any 
heavy shells, or bits of rock, or stone, which you have to put in the jars, 
must be suspended from the top with string, that they may not roll 
about and bruise the more delicate creatures at the bottom. Put the ani¬ 
mals into the tank as soon as you get home; for the sooner they are put in, 
the better chance have they of thriving. As a last direction, we would im¬ 
press on our young friends to make a point of visiting their aquariums at 
least once every day, and ascertaining, by a critical glance, if any thing is 
to be done in the way of removing dead specimens, agitating the water, or 
even feeding some of the more unruly inhabitants with minute pieces of 
meat, if they are found especially voracious, and consequently disposed to 
prey upon their weaker neighbors. 
