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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife219161917baus (find matches)
Year: 1916-1917 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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120 Si((\xsitic Hit An Aquaruim Unquie One of my friends, who lives in one of the densest parts of London, takes his guests into a Httle back room where, to all appearance, the inmates are partly under water, as if in a diving bell. There is only one window to the room, and that window is apparently the only means of keeping the water out. Through the panes are seen fishes swimming about at ing crystals, and lighted from above by the blue sky. How this curious and beautiful effect can be produced is not easily seen until the inventor throws up the window. As he lays his hand on the sash, the spec- tator is rather startled, because, to all appearance, the glass panes form the barriers against the water. However, the sash glides up easily, and the water does not come in. A closer view betrays
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TKe Mouth Cichlid Breeder Haplochromis strigigena Original Water Color by E. S. Voung their ease, sometimes sailing steadily along, and sometimes putting their noses against the window, as if trying to enter the room; aquatic plants are waving their flexible leafage in the water, while many other inhabitants of the river are flitting about as if in their native haunts. In the middle is a fountain, which throws jets of water high into the air, while, as the spectator directs his gaze upwards, he seems to be looking into a nymph's cavern, rich with stalactites, and glitter- the deception, which is really an ingeni- ous as well as a pretty one. The aqua- rium is built just outside the window, and is about eighteen inches wider on either side. Both sides and the back are made of brick and slate, well cemented, while the front is of a single sheet of plate glass, which is close behind the window panes, and is not seen when the sash is down. The tank is, of course a very large one, and the back being about Concluded on Pa!^e 122

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