. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. pedition, in which he is portrayed,gaunt and starving, gazing wearily into thefathomless waste of snow, his companion inmisery Ijing dead beside him in our knowledge of the breed leads us tothink the picture, beautiful though it be,somewhat improbable, for we are sure thesurvivor, ere giving himself up to despair,would have partaken of a chop from his latemate, and then have proceeded to free judged an Esquimaux dog in his life. Hepossesses a wonderfully dense coat of twokinds, a thick underwool and a stiff outer
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. pedition, in which he is portrayed,gaunt and starving, gazing wearily into thefathomless waste of snow, his companion inmisery Ijing dead beside him in our knowledge of the breed leads us tothink the picture, beautiful though it be,somewhat improbable, for we are sure thesurvivor, ere giving himself up to despair,would have partaken of a chop from his latemate, and then have proceeded to free judged an Esquimaux dog in his life. Hepossesses a wonderfully dense coat of twokinds, a thick underwool and a stiff outercoat, together forming an admirable deep snow was on the ground itwas his delight to scratch out a hole inwhich he would lie, dreaming, maybe, ofthe days of his youth spent in Arctic dogs of this variety, if given acods head, usually succeed in separatingall the flesh from the bones as neatly asmight be done by a surgeon with his dis-secting knife, a task which, if set to anordinary dog, would, probably result in hisdeath from tie original paintinc! by F. Edwaed Huljd?, 1?. THE HOME AQUARIUM. By De. E. Bade. Illustrated with photographs by the Author. npHE keen business competition of to-day compels -L most of us to live in town during the gi-eater part of the year, and we are consequently restricted to a very few weeks in which to contemplate nature. A vague force is, however, continually urging man to keep in touch with nature, and so nature must come to him, since it is denied him to go and study her in freedom; he instals in his home a small fragment of nature. No branch of nature-study has of late years madesuch progress, or found so many enthusiastic followers,as the keeping of aquaria. This is easiljaccounted for by the fact that the forms of life observedin the aquarium, the world of animals and plants whichlive in the water, are in the natural state almost entirelyshut out from observation. The won
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