Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 2IS. Mactra stultorum. devoutly to be wished. The Nudibranche Molluscs,found on the rocks at low tide, have been almost. Fig. 2!0. ^Eolis coronata. forgotten, and of these the pretty little iEoliscoronata (fig. 219) is very attractive. Annelids, or sea-worms, must also bepassed by, with an al-lusion to the tubes ofa species of Terebella,found either attached toor drifted amongst theseaweed. These tubesare about the thickness ofa tobacco-pipe (fig. 220),nd composed of sand,littl
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 2IS. Mactra stultorum. devoutly to be wished. The Nudibranche Molluscs,found on the rocks at low tide, have been almost. Fig. 2!0. ^Eolis coronata. forgotten, and of these the pretty little iEoliscoronata (fig. 219) is very attractive. Annelids, or sea-worms, must also bepassed by, with an al-lusion to the tubes ofa species of Terebella,found either attached toor drifted amongst theseaweed. These tubesare about the thickness ofa tobacco-pipe (fig. 220),nd composed of sand,little stones, and minuteshells, or fragments ofshells, agglutinated toge-ther into a flexible tube,somewhat after the man-ner of the cases of thecaddis. The mouth ofthe tube is fringed witha number of smaller hair-like tubes of a similarconstruction. Livelycrustaceans left by thetide consist of crabs ofall sizes, hermit crabs—shrimps, and sand-hoppers. It is expedient to furnish the juvenileswith small hand-nets, and send them off to theshallow pools on the sands to catch shrimps, so that
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