Handbook to the Fish-House in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Author : E. W. H. Holdworth
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : E. W. H. Holdworth
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1860
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : Zoological Society of London. Gardens
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 1870
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Page : 630 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 1863
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Author : Sclater
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Professor John Simons
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1743328737
“For the first time, fish became our companions and a corner of many a Victorian parlour was given over to housing tiny fragments of their world enclosed in glass.” The experience of seeing a fish swimming in a glass tank is one we take for granted now but in Victorian England this was a remarkable sight. People had simply not been able to see fish as they now could with the invention of the aquarium and everything that went with it. Goldfish in the Parlour looks at the boom in the building of public aquariums, as well as the craze for home aquariums and visiting the seaside, during the reign of Queen Victoria. Furthermore, this book considers how people see and meet animals and, importantly, in what institutions and in what contexts these encounters happen. John Simons uncovers the sweeping consequences of the Victorian obsession with marine animals by looking at naturalist Frank Buckland’s Museum of Economic Fish Culture and the role of fish in the Victorian economy, the development of angling as a sport divided along class lines, the seeding of Empire with British fish and comparisons with aquarium building in Europe, USA and Australia. Goldfish in the Parlour interrogates the craze that took over Victorian England when aquariums “introduced” fish to parks, zoos and parlours.
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 1880
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Author : London Zoo (London, England)
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : Zoological Society of London
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Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 1854
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Page : 746 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 1864
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