Chapter I: Front Matter

The Bottom--Mould--Planting--The Water--Aspect.

Chapter IV.--Plants for the Aquarium 21

How to stock a Tank quickly--Selection of Plants--Water
Soldier--Starwort--Vallisneria--Anacharis--Myriophyllum--
Potamogeton--Nuphar Lutea--Pipewort--Utricularia--Isopelis--
Subularia--Ranunculus--Hydrocaris--Alisma--Lemna, &c.

Chapter V.--Fishes for the Aquarium 32

Cyprinus Carpio, Gibelio, Carassius, Auratus, Brama,
Leucisus, Rutilus, Alburnus, Phoxinus, Gobio, Tinca,
Barbus, Barbatula, Cephalus--Percidæ--Gasterosteus.

Chapter VI.--Reptiles, Mollusks, and Insects 44

Chapter VII.--Selection of Stock 46

Chapter VIII.--General Management 48

Feeding--Confervæ--Uses of Mollusks--Objections to
Mollusks--Use of Confervoid Growths--Periodical
Cleansing--Exhaustion of Oxygen--Temperature--Dead
Specimens--Disease of Fishes.

THE MARINE TANK.

Chapter I.--The Vessel 53

Points in which the Marine differs from the River Tank--
Stained Glass.

Chapter II.--Fitting-up 56

The Bottom--Rocks, Arches, and Caves--The Water--Artificial
Sea Water--Marine Salts--Management of Artificial Water--
Caution to the Uninitiated--Filtering.

Chapter III.--Collecting Specimens 66

Chapter IV.--The Plants 69

Chapter V.--The Animals 71

Fishes--Mollusks--Annelides--Zoophytes--Actinia
Mesembryanthemum--Anguicoma, Bellis, Gemmacea,
Crassicornis, Parasitica, Dianthus, &c.

Chapter VI.--What is an Anemone? 84

Chapter VII.--General Management 91

Grouping of Objects--Sulphuretted Hydrogen--Preservation
of the Water--Aeration--Filter--Decay of Plants--Death of
Anemones--Removal of Objects--Density of the Water--
Green Stain--Feeding--The Syphon--Purchase of Specimens.

THE WATER CABINET.

Chapter I.--Construction of Cabinets 101

Distinctions between the Cabinet and the Aquarium--
Construction of a Cabinet--Glasses.

Chapter II.--Collecting and Arranging Specimens 106

Implements for Collecting--Nets, Jars, and Phials--
Pond Fishing.

Chapter III.--The Stock 110

Chapter IV.--Larva 114

The Dragon Fly--The Gnat--The Case Fly.

Chapter V.--Coleoptera 130

Dytiscus Marginalis--Hydrous Piceus--Colymbetes--
Gyrinus Natator.

Chapter VI.--Heteroptera 139

Hydrometra--Notanecta, Nepa, &c.