. Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation; a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. Aquariums; Goldfish. GOLDFISH BREEDS. bronzes are accurate re-productions of fishes bred by them. Some of these are so astonishing in form and colors that to the layman they would appear to be willful exaggerations or caricatures, but to the experienced goldfish culturist are easily within the range of possibility and may be accepted by him without question. This tendency to varia- tion on the part of the goldfish is one of the FIG. 34-The White
. Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation; a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. Aquariums; Goldfish. GOLDFISH BREEDS. bronzes are accurate re-productions of fishes bred by them. Some of these are so astonishing in form and colors that to the layman they would appear to be willful exaggerations or caricatures, but to the experienced goldfish culturist are easily within the range of possibility and may be accepted by him without question. This tendency to varia- tion on the part of the goldfish is one of the FIG. 34-The White Rat principal pointS of inter- Dorsal view Two-thirds life size ggj -^^ ;^g cultutc, as any alevin may have a distinct character of its own and be either a wonder in its way or a "sport" not worth the trouble of raising. It should be stated that young fishes of marked abnormality do not usually survive which is very often also the case with those considered the most perfect by the fancier. Description of the Goldfishes Depicted by De Sauvigny This illustrated memoir of Chinese goldfishes is in the possession of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and is entitled Histoire Naturelle Des Dorades de la Chine, Gravees par M. F. N. Martinet, Ingenieur et Graveur du Cabinet du Roi, • Accompagnee d'Observations et d'Anecdotes relatives aus Usages, aus Moers et au Gouvernement de cet Empire, par M. De Sauvigny, Chevalier de I'Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint Louis, Censeur Royal, &c. a Paris, De 1' Imprimerie de Louis Jorry, reu de la Huchette, pres du Petit-Chatelet. MDCCLXXX Avec Approbation et Privelege du Roi. It consists of forty-eight finely colored plates, and of twenty-four pages of text principally descriptive of the Chinese realm, government, laws and literature. The brief mention of the goldfishes occurs in the Preface and in the short article proper, a literal translation of which follows. " Of the different species of goldfishes of China t
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