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Title: Popular history of the aquarium of marine and fresh-water animals and plants
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854
Subjects: Aquariums Marine biology Freshwater biology
Publisher: London : Lovell Reeve
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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nd its colour paler. Subjecting it to the microscope, liefound that the front part of the animal had changed its form,and on the fourth day it had changed in every part. A largespine on the carapace of the first form had disappeared inthe second; and, together with other changes, the tail hadchanged from a two-pronged fork to a broad flap, or spade.The second form of this Zoea, as figured by Slabber, turnsout to correspond with that of several subsequently observedspecies, the larvse of Valcemon. PALiEMON SERRATUS. (Plate XII.) Pew tenants of an Aquarium are equal in beauty to T.alcB-mon seriatus, or large Prawn. Even the boiled specimens,as seen in the shops, are not without attraction; but living,they are indeed exquisite. The transparent body, withzebra-like markings; the delicate tinting and spotting; theelegant curved and serrated horn; the brilliant, sparklingeyes; the gracefully curving and waving antennae; theslender legs, with their bright blue and yellow bands; the Plate 17.
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Sowerrr/ del etlitli. jarooks Im-D. Tcmug JloTiTLdexs. CRUSTACEA. 221 neatly-turned hands^ and the fan-like tail; every line, everyjoint, every limb, presents some separate beauty of form andmotion : the whole combining in a picture, of which thedead specimens, as seen and eaten, can give but a poor idea. Wishing to give my readers a view of this elegant crea-ture, I was desiring an Aquarian to procure me a specimen,that I might have him before my eyes for a few days, towatch liis movements, and, if possible, to get a life-like por-trait. Unfortunately, just then it was difficult to get spe-cimens. Could you not take the figure from BelFs ^Crus-tacea, and colour from Gosses description? suggested myfriend. No ; BelFs figure is a woodcut, and very unfa-vourable for a ghost-like transparency. Mr. Gosses de-scription, beautiful as it is, or any other manes description,must fail to do justice to the Prawn. So, failing to get alive specimen ^^for my very own, as the children say, Ihave bee

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