Lisachromis
05-13-2008, 9:34 AM
Just wanted to share
with others the cool "new" book we just got.
Popular History of the Aquarium
by SOWERBY, GEORGE 1857.
This book is fascinating. It mainly deals with marine life, but
there is a small section on freshwater fish and underwater life. I hadn't realized that this
appears to be most likely the 2nd book ever written specifically on aquarium topics. Heck, I've
already read the freshwater section. There is a really interesting description of stickleback
breeding in it.
http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/horizn/N10312.shtml
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class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The author was an important
marine biologist of his day. This work, published just three years after the first book devoted to
the newly invented aquarium was published by Gosse, is indicative of the fashion of the day to
collect natural history objects and display them in one's home. In this case ecologies were
established using various live sea creatures, both plants and animals, usually collected personally
at the sea shore. The author, a noted conchologist and zoologist, describes the construction and
maintenance of the aquarium and the type of creatures to collect.</div><!--
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with others the cool "new" book we just got.
Popular History of the Aquarium
by SOWERBY, GEORGE 1857.
This book is fascinating. It mainly deals with marine life, but
there is a small section on freshwater fish and underwater life. I hadn't realized that this
appears to be most likely the 2nd book ever written specifically on aquarium topics. Heck, I've
already read the freshwater section. There is a really interesting description of stickleback
breeding in it.
http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/horizn/N10312.shtml
<div
class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The author was an important
marine biologist of his day. This work, published just three years after the first book devoted to
the newly invented aquarium was published by Gosse, is indicative of the fashion of the day to
collect natural history objects and display them in one's home. In this case ecologies were
established using various live sea creatures, both plants and animals, usually collected personally
at the sea shore. The author, a noted conchologist and zoologist, describes the construction and
maintenance of the aquarium and the type of creatures to collect.</div><!--
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