The Book of the Aquarium and Water Cabinet / or Practical Instructions on the Formation, Stocking, and Mangement, in all Seasons, of Collections of Fresh Water and Marine Life

CABINET AQUARIUM.
THE BOOK OF THE AQUARIUM AND WATER CABINET; OR
ON THE FORMATION, STOCKING, AND MANAGEMENT, IN ALL SEASONS, OF COLLECTIONS OF FRESH WATER AND MARINE LIFE: BY SHIRLEY HIBBERD, AUTHOR OF RUSTIC ADORNMENTS FOR HOMES OF TASTE, &c., &c. LONDON: GROOMBRIDGE & SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1856.
W. H. COLLINGRIDGE, PRINTER, 1, LONG LANE.
CONTENTS.
THE FRESH-WATER TANK.
THE MARINE TANK.
THE WATER CABINET.
LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.
PREFACE.
Every day adds to the popularity of the Aquarium, but every day does not add to the accuracy of the published descriptions of it, or the perspicuity of the directions everywhere given for its formation and maintenance. Lately the periodical press has teemed with essays on the subject; but it does not require a very close scrutiny for the practical man to discern that a majority of such papers express the enthusiasm rather than the knowledge of their authors—a few weeks' management of a tank seeming to be considered a sufficient qualification for the expounding of its philosophy, though it demands an acquaintance with the minutest details of the most refined departments of botany and zoology to do anything like justice to it.