Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 210. Egg-cases of Whelk. about upon the beach, and are certain to elicit aquery from juveniles. The membrane, mounted inbalsam, is a good microscopic object (Science-Gossip, 1SG7, p. 91). Less common are the Fig. 211. Eggs of Cuttle-fish. like bunches of black grapes (6g. 211), of the eggsof the cuttle-fish, ot the same kindred as theOctopus, so graphically described by Mr. J. K. Lordin a former number (1865, page 50), and the originalof the Devil-fish of Victor Hugo
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 210. Egg-cases of Whelk. about upon the beach, and are certain to elicit aquery from juveniles. The membrane, mounted inbalsam, is a good microscopic object (Science-Gossip, 1SG7, p. 91). Less common are the Fig. 211. Eggs of Cuttle-fish. like bunches of black grapes (6g. 211), of the eggsof the cuttle-fish, ot the same kindred as theOctopus, so graphically described by Mr. J. K. Lordin a former number (1865, page 50), and the originalof the Devil-fish of Victor Hugos Toilers ofthe Sea. Apropos of the cuttle-fish, the whiteoblong plates commonly called cuttle-fish bone, Oct. 1, 1S67.] HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 219 which constitute the solid framework of the Cuttle(Sepia officinalis), and the transparent plates of theCalamary (Loligo vulgaris), sometimes called Sea-pen, will occasionally be seen on the beach nearthe fishermans quarter. The dead cuttle-fish maythemselves be seen there, but often more offensiveto the nose than pleasing to the eye. The common Star-fish, or Five Fingers(Uraster rubens), is too well known on the beachto need description, and our woodcut will be a suf-ficient introduction to those who stay at home (). A very pretty little star, not exceeding an KALEVIMAG
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