On Sunday, May 28, 1665, Samuel Pepys records in his diary “a fine rarity.”
Thence home and to see my Lady Pen, where my wife and I were shown a fine rarity: of fishes kept in a glass of water, that will live so for ever; and finely marked they are, being foreign.
Goldfish had only recently [...]
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Kenneth Sutton’s aide-mémoire
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A List Apart Survey
