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Title: The aquarium
Identifier: aquarium4391896mule (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Mulertt, Hugo
Subjects: Aquarium animals; Aquarium fishes; Aquariums
Publisher: Brooklyn, N. Y. : H. Mulertt
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THE AQUAEIUM, APRIL; 1S96. 4:3 may be turned to usefulness. We are sure that if some one who is favorably located, be it man or woman, would try in the same direction, plenty more pretty and nseful aquarium plants could be secured for cultivation. An- other manner to get novelties, which we have repeatedly practised, is to secure the contents of the stomachs of water fowls and sow these. Another prove as great an assistant to the prac- tices of these callings as the micro- scope. At the present time, while curiosity is awake, we thought it of interest to our readers to show them how one of our pets appears under this new light, and had one photographed. â We selected for this purpose a spec-^ imen of the German fire salamander-
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Fire salamnnder, from a photograph taken with X rays expressly for The AqaARiuM. one of our celebrated aquarium plants originated in this manner. But some other day about that. THE SALAMANDER IN MOD- ERN LIGHT. The wonderful discovery of Prof. Roentgen has created quite a sensation. So far, however, we don't see in which way this new discovery will affect the aquarium or fish culturist. It may, how- ever, later on, when better developed. (salamandra maadosa), the same spe- cies that during the "dark" ages was- surrounded with so much mystery. The plate was taken in our presence by Dr. McKay, Professor of Physics at the Packer Collegiate Institute, of Brooklyn. The process differs from ordinary photography considerably. In ordinary photography the picture of the object to be photographed is focused by a con- densing lens on the prepared plate or film, which is contained in the dark

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