. Thomas Henry Huxley; a sketch of his life and work. Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895. CHAPTER III FI^OATING CRKATURKS OF THEJ SBA The Nature of Floating Life — Memoir on Medusae Accepted by the Royal Society — Old and New Ideas of the Animal Kingdom —What Huxley Discovered in Medusae — His Comparison of them with Vertebrate Bmbryos. AS the Rattlesnake sailed through the tropical seas Huxley came in contact with the very peculiar and interesting inhabitants of the surface of the sea, known now to naturalists as pelagic life or ** ; Although a poet has spoken of the ** unvintageab
. Thomas Henry Huxley; a sketch of his life and work. Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895. CHAPTER III FI^OATING CRKATURKS OF THEJ SBA The Nature of Floating Life — Memoir on Medusae Accepted by the Royal Society — Old and New Ideas of the Animal Kingdom —What Huxley Discovered in Medusae — His Comparison of them with Vertebrate Bmbryos. AS the Rattlesnake sailed through the tropical seas Huxley came in contact with the very peculiar and interesting inhabitants of the surface of the sea, known now to naturalists as pelagic life or ** ; Although a poet has spoken of the ** unvintageable sea," all parts of the ocean surface teem with life. Sometimes, as in high latitudes, the cold is so great that only the simplest microscopic forms are able to maintain existence. In the tropics, animals and plants are abundant, and sometimes by their numbers colour great areas of water; or, as in the drift of the Gulf Stream, make a tangle of animal and plant life through which a boat travels only with difficulty. The basis of the food-supply of this vast and hungry floating hfe is, as on land, vegetable life ; for plants are the only creat- ures capable of building up food from the gases of the air and the simple chemical salts found dissolved in water. Occasionally, in shallow or warm seas, marine 30. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mitchell, P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers), Sir, 1864-1945. New York, Putnam
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