. Boys and girls in biology : or, Simple studies of the lower forms of life. Biology. THE LOBSTER. 147 able to find his loud-smelling food ; yet he has no nose. Some people imagine that he carries his nose in his long feelers (Fig. 109). The eyes, as you have seen, are away in front, at the ends of the first pair of joints, or ap- pendages (Fig. 116)—the eye-stalks. The eye is kidney- shaped ; instead of having one window or pupil, as your eye has, through which the light enters, the whole front is divided into squares like old-fashioned window-panes (Fig. 125). Each square is really a separat
. Boys and girls in biology : or, Simple studies of the lower forms of life. Biology. THE LOBSTER. 147 able to find his loud-smelling food ; yet he has no nose. Some people imagine that he carries his nose in his long feelers (Fig. 109). The eyes, as you have seen, are away in front, at the ends of the first pair of joints, or ap- pendages (Fig. 116)—the eye-stalks. The eye is kidney- shaped ; instead of having one window or pupil, as your eye has, through which the light enters, the whole front is divided into squares like old-fashioned window-panes (Fig. 125). Each square is really a separate eye, and Fig. 126. Windows. Outer Cover, or Cornea, of Eye. Eod. Fig. — Eye. 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 Stevenson, Sarah Hackett, 1843-1909; Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895. New York : D. Appleton and company
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