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Title: Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation : a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. With 280 explanatory illustrations, printed with the text
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wolf, Herman Theodore, 1855-
Subjects: Aquariums Goldfish
Publisher: Philadelphia : Innes & sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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GOLDFISH BREEDS bronzes are accurate re-productions of fishes bred by them. Some of theseare so astonishing in form and colors that to the layman thev would appearto be willful exaggerations or caricatures, but to the experienced goldfish culturist are easily withinthe range 01 possibilityand may be accepted byhim without question.This tendency to varia-tion on the part of thegoldfish is one of theprincipal points of inter-est in its culture, as anyalevin may have a distinct character of its own and be either a wonder inits way or a sport not worth the trouble of raising. It should be statedthat young fishes of marked abnormality do not usually survive which isvery often also the case with those considered the most perfect by thefancier.
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FIG. 34—The White Rat Dorsal view Two-thirds life size Description of the Goldfishes Depicted by De Sauvigny This illustrated memoir of Chinese goldfishes is in the possession ofthe Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and is entitled Histoire Naturelle Des Dorades de la Chine,Gravees par M. F. N. Martinet, Ingenieur et Graveur du Cabinet du Roi,Accompagnee dObservations et dAnecdotes relatives aus Usages, ausMcers et au Gouvernement de cet Empire, par M. De Sauvigny,Chevalier de lOrdre Royal et Militaire de Saint Louis, Censeur Royal, &c. a Paris, De rimprimerie de Louis Jorry, reu de la Huchette, pres du Petit-Chatelet. MDCCLXXX Avec Approbation et Privelege du Roi. It consists of forty-eight finely colored plates, and of twenty-fourpages of text principally descriptive of the Chinese realm, government, lawsand literature. The brief mention of the goldfishes occurs in the Prefaceand in the short article proper, a literal translation of which follows. Of the different s

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