Re: Old books

[gary l meyers <garymeyers at juno_com>]

A couple of things about the wonderful old books sadden me though -- the
main one is that many of the fish in the book with wonderful descriptions
simply are no longer available in stores.  Some were exported to
extinction or near extinction and others were not produced by breeders --
most of whom concentrated their breeding efforts on the "Money Fish":

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:05:02 -0000 "Dave Wood" <daviduu at btinternet_com>
writes:
> Tim Addis wrote
> > Just had a copy of 'Exotic Aquarium Fishes' by Innes. What a 
> fantastic old
> > work. From 1935 these old works can still teach us new boys a 
> thing or
> two.<
> 
> I always find it amazing that we don't make more use of "old" 
> information.
> When you think that in the good old days many articles in magazines 
> were
> written by the likes of G.S. Myers and Rosario LaCorte there is a 
> goldmine
> of first breedings, and discovery details.
> Also many of the old magazines were written in such a way as to 
> stimulate
> thought, unlike most of the modern mags which seem to be primarily 
> vehicles
> for advertising.
> 
> Dave Wood
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Addis" <timaddis at killifish_force9.co.uk>
> To: <killietalk at aka_org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 6:56 PM
> Subject: Old books
> 
> 
> >
> >    Tim
> >
> >
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