Collectors of Aquarium Literature – Number 50 August 1993

In this Issue:
1. The Rise and Fall of An Aristocrat by Ida M. Mellen
2. Big, blue and beautiful by David Martill
3. Castrated top-dog fish fail to lose their balls by Gail Vines
4. The Boston Aquarium Society in the Early Thirties
5. 40 Years Ago Part 7 by Stuart Elton
6. Aquarium: a new magazine from Russia by Neil Frank

The Collectors of Aquarium Literature was an organization founded by Dave Hopp and Paul Harvey to better organize those who collected vintage aquarium magazines and books. Each issue had articles on aquarium publication history, plus articles related to book and magazine collecting in general. This publication ran from May 1983 through June 1994 for a total of 55 issues. (August through November 1988 was a combined issue 25/26, and March through July 1989 was marked 29/30 1989.)

The MOAPH museum wishes to thank Paul Harvey and Dave Hopp for giving the museum permission to reprint these issues.

These CAL issues are reproduced exactly as they were printed in their entirety. We have left the “wanted” or “for sale” ads for historical reference, but please note that many of these CAL members have moved or are deceased.