. Diversions of a naturalist. Natural history. MORE AS TO THE BARNACLE AND GOOSE 133 Fig. 15.—The Goose and the Barnacle. A, Drawing of a Ship's Barnacle attached to a piece of timber by its " peduncle" or stalk, which re- presents the neck of a goose, if we regard the shell - covered region as the goose's body. From a sketch by M. Fred- eric Houssay pub- lished in the'' Revue Archieologique," January 1895. B, Copy of a drawing on an ancient Myken- rean pot found in Crete, and figured by M. Perrot in his "Ossuaire de Crete " vol. vi. p. 936. It is a fantastic blend of
. Diversions of a naturalist. Natural history. MORE AS TO THE BARNACLE AND GOOSE 133 Fig. 15.—The Goose and the Barnacle. A, Drawing of a Ship's Barnacle attached to a piece of timber by its " peduncle" or stalk, which re- presents the neck of a goose, if we regard the shell - covered region as the goose's body. From a sketch by M. Fred- eric Houssay pub- lished in the'' Revue Archieologique," January 1895. B, Copy of a drawing on an ancient Myken- rean pot found in Crete, and figured by M. Perrot in his "Ossuaire de Crete " vol. vi. p. 936. It is a fantastic blend of the goose and the barnacle. The bar- nacle's stalk is given a beak and an eye ; the body of the bird corresponds to the shells of the barnacle both in shape and marking. There are no wings or leg>, but the curious single limb which I have marked pe is obviously the same thing as that marked pe in figure C, which represents the barnacle when cut open so as to show the structures within the shell, pe is the rod-like body at the end of which the seminal duct opens. It is seen in the drawing of the expanded barnacle (Fig. 10), lying between the two groups of six forked and jointed legs or "; C, A correct modern drawing of a ship's barnacle, with the shells of one side removed so as to show the six double legs of one side, the seminal rod (pe), and the internal organs. This is what Sir Robert Moray and his mediaeval predecessors saw on opening the barnacle's shell and described as " a young bird complete in every ;. 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 Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929. London : Methuen
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