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Identifier: oceanwonderscomp00damo (find matches)
Title: Ocean wonders: a companion for the seaside
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Damon, William Emerson, 1838-
Subjects: Marine animals Aquariums
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ARGONAUT, OR PAPER NAUTILUS (Argonauta argo).
OCEAN WONDERS:
A
COMPANION FOE THE SEASIDE.
FREELY ILLUSTRATED FROM LIVING- OBJECTS.
BY
WILLIAM E. DAMON.
We know not a millionth part of the wonders of this beautiful world.
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
549 AND 551 BKOADWAY.
1879.
COPYRIGHT BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
1819.
TO
THE LOVEES AND ADMIRERS
OF
THE OCEAN AND ITS WONDERS
THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED BY
THE ATHOR.
PEEFACE.
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This volume has been specially prepared with a view to
supply a long-felt need of precise and reliable information
in regard to the living objects of our own sea-coast, and,
incidentally, of other marine animals, either suitable for the
aquarium or of sufficient intrinsic interest to deserve notice
in any general work on marine zoology. My purpose is not
only to describe the organic features and modes of life of
these creatures, in their native ocean and river homes, but
also to give careful and practical instruction as to where and
how many of them may be procured and preserved in par-
lor and public aquaria.
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