Excerpt from The Book of the Fresh-Water Aquarium: Or Practical Instructions, on the Formation, Stocking, and Management in All Seasons, of Collections of River Animals and Plants The Name. - The term vivarium was first applied to the vessel eontaining a collection of specimens of aquatic life, and the first Vivarium of such a kind, on anything like an extensive scale, was that opened to public exhi bitiou in the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens. Many naturalists had previously made experiments to ascertain some certain method of preserving aquatic animals in a living and healthy state; and the Vivariumbwhich is the result of those experiments, may be considered as an imitation of the means employed by nature herself in the preservation and perpetuation of the various forms of animal and vegetable life Which people the oceans and the Streams. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.