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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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In
1850,
Mr.
Robert
Warrington
communicated
to
the
Chemical
Society
the
results
of
a
year’s
experiments,
“On
the
Adjustment
of
the
Relations
between
the
Animal
and
Vegetable
Kingdoms,
by
which
the
Vital
Functions
of
both
are
permanently
maintained.”
The
law
which
his
experiments
verified
was
the
same
as
that
on
which
Mr.
Ward,
in
1842,
founded
his
invaluable
proposal
for
increasing
the
purity
of
the
air
in
large
towns,
by
planting
trees
and
cultivating
flowers
in
rooms,
that
the
animal
and
vegetable
respirations
might
counterbalance
each
other;
the
animal’s
blood
being
purified
by
the
oxygen
given
off
by
the
plants,
the
plants
fed
by
the
carbonic
acid
breathed
out
by
the
animals.
On
the
same
principle,
Mr.
Warrington
first
kept,
for
many
months,
in
a
vase
of
unchanged
water,
two
small
gold
fish
and
a
plant
of
Vallisneria
spiralis;
and
two
years
afterwards
began
a
similar
experiment
with
sea-water,
weeds,
and
anemones,
which
were,
at
last,
as
successful
as
the
former
ones.
Mr.
Gosse
had,
in
the
meanwhile,
with
tolerable
success
begun
a
similar
method,
unaware
of
what
Mr.
Warrington
had
done;
and
now
the
beautiful
and
curious
exhibition
of
fresh
and
salt
water
tanks
in
the
Zoological
Gardens
in
London,
bids
fair
to
be
copied
in
every
similar
institution,
and
we
hope
in
many
private
houses,
throughout
the
kingdom.
To
this
subject
Mr.
Gosse’s
book,
“The
Aquarium,”
is
principally
devoted,
though
it
contains,
besides,
sketches
of
coast
scenery,
in
his
usual
charming
style,
and
descriptions
of
rare
sea-animals,
with
wise
and
goodly
reflections
thereon.
One
great
object
of
interest
in
the
book
is
the
last
chapter,
which
treats
fully
of
the
making
and
stocking
these
salt-water
“Aquaria;”
and
the
various
beautifully
coloured
plates,
which
are,
as
it
were,
sketches
from
the
interior
of
tanks,
are
well
fitted
to
excite
the
desire
of
all
readers
to
possess
such
gorgeous
living
pictures,
if
as
nothing
else,
still
as
drawing-room
ornaments,
flower-gardens
which
never
wither,
fairy
lakes
of
perpetual
calm
which
no
storm
blackens,—
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