Ocean Gardens. The History of the Marine Aquarium and the best methods now adopted for its establishment and preservation.

The curious floral forms of the Zoöphytes have, as yet, attracted the greatest degree of attention among the constructors of marine Aquaria; yet other forms of ocean life offer...

The successful treatment of aquatic plants and animals, in the confined space of a glass Aquarium, depends entirely upon the discovery that there exists in Nature a self-adjusti...

The Aquarium having been furnished with its vegetation, and rendered as picturesque as possible by the well-arranged juxtaposition of felicitously-contrasting forms and colours,...

As the forest must be planted before its denizens can luxuriate in its shades, so the submarine shrubbery of the Aquarium must be perfected before the aquatic animals can be int...

A marine Aquarium may be rendered very interesting without the introduction of fish, and as their presence requires that the water should be once each day aerated by means of ad...

The wonders of the ocean floor do not reveal themselves to vulgar eyes. As the oracle was inaudible to sacrilegious listeners, and as none but poetic ears heard the cadenced bea...

A group of _Ascidians_ forms a very curious object for the Aquarium, their forms being singular, and sometimes delicate as a transparent egg-shell. The group delineated in Plate...

In conclusion, a few general remarks may be made, the observance of which will usually ensure success in the formation of an Aquarium. In the first place, if the vessel in which...

What the vast majority of our migratory flocks of summer and autumnal idlers generally do and think at the sea-side, cannot be better exemplified than by reference to the clever...

1. _Bangia fusco-purpurea_ The Dark-purple Bangia 46 2. _Codium tomentosum_ The Closely-haired Codium 46 3. _Bryopsis plumosa_ The Feathery Bryopsis 41, 46 4. _Callithamnion arb...