The Public Domain Review
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“Plumose Anemone”, one of the many wonderful illustrative plates to appear in Philip Henry Gosse's The Aquarium (1854) which inspired the "aquarium mania" that gripped much of mid-19th century Britain. More in Bernd Brunner's "Bringing the Ocean Home" publicdomainreview.org/essay/bringing…