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  • Aquarium, the, 44–53;
    • fresh-water aquariums, 44;
    • badly constructed aquariums, 45;
    • the author's first aquarium, 46;
    • how to make aquariums, 48–51;
    • plants for the aquarium, 49;
    • land and water aquariums, 50;
    • fountain for aquarium, 51;
    • the author's aquarium, 51;
    • stocking the aquarium, 53;
    • food, 53;
    • aquarium cement, 57;
    • see also Aquatic Plants. Marine Aquariums, 61–65;
    • improvements on common tank, 61;
    • cement, 62;
    • arrangement of marine aquarium, 62;
    • collecting for marine aquarium, 66–68;
    • importance of healthy specimens, 67;
    • the marine worm (Polycirrus eximius), 67;
    • barnacles, 67;
    • sketching aquariums, 241.
  • American Canoeist, The, 118.
  • Amusements for in-doors, 305;
    • games: bric-à-brac, or the tourist's curiosities, 305;
    • mind-reading, 309;
    • the Literary Sketch Club, 310;
    • the "Boy's Own Phunnygraph," 314;
    • puppet-shows, 322; magic lanterns, 346;
    • a home-made kaleidoscope, 347;
    • fortune-teller's box, 348;
    • the magic cask, 351; dancing fairies, 354;
    • handkerchief tricks, 354;
    • the potato mill, 360;
    • the saw-mill, ib.;
    • whirligigs, 361;
    • the magic wheel, 365;
    • the universe in a card-box, 368;
    • electrical experiments, 371;
    • masquerades, 374.
  • Animal magnetism, 371.
  • Aquatic plants;
    • see Plants.
  • Arsenical soap for preserving stuffed birds, 235;
    • how to make, 239;
    • Wallace's receipt, ib.
  • Artist, every boy his own decorative, 248–253;
    • shadow pictures, 248;
    • photographic paper, 250;
    • how to enlarge or reduce drawings by squares, ib.
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  • Balloons, paper, 136;
    • unsafe shapes, ib.;
    • safe models, 137;
    • how to build hot-air balloons, 138–142;
    • wick preferable to sponge for fire-
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