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Continued from August 30 (reply #29) .

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4 posted on 09/01/2017 5:12:30 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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15 posted on 09/01/2017 9:19:13 AM PDT by M Kehoe

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[Continued from September 1 (reply #4).]

September 4. Aquaria at a premium. Ever since I read Gosse’s book* three summers ago, I’ve been predicting that they would become fashionable and trying to find a workman who would undertake to construct them. The obstacle has been the want of proper cement. Now they are announced on sale at several places and are destined to be the fashionable plaything of next season. I got a small tank yesterday and have stocked it with George Anthon’s surplus that had been lying in jars since his return from Newport (soaking in putrescent sea water) and with a few fish from his aquarium. Results tonight are better than could have been hoped.

* Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), English naturalist, had published a book called The Aquarium (1854)

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24 posted on 09/04/2017 7:07:42 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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