Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . © >fj£|?\ Fig-. 243. Sponge spicule. popular names of walking-sticks, walking-straws, leaf-insects, &c, &c. These, and othercases of analogy of form which might be cited, areno doubt designed by a beneficent Providence with. Fig. 111. Aslromma Aristoteli. resemblances, in which there is no apparent reasonwhy such should exist. A familiar example is foundin the branchiae of the JEolis, which are somewhatlike an oak-leaf, and also the resemblance whichsome of the foraminiferse bear
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . © >fj£|?\ Fig-. 243. Sponge spicule. popular names of walking-sticks, walking-straws, leaf-insects, &c, &c. These, and othercases of analogy of form which might be cited, areno doubt designed by a beneficent Providence with. Fig. 111. Aslromma Aristoteli. resemblances, in which there is no apparent reasonwhy such should exist. A familiar example is foundin the branchiae of the JEolis, which are somewhatlike an oak-leaf, and also the resemblance whichsome of the foraminiferse bear to the nautilus, sogreat as to induce our older naturalists to classthem with the mollusca. The annexed illustrationsgive instances of curious analogies. In fig. 213 wehave a sponge spicule bearing a close resemblanceto one of the Polycystina (fig. 211) Astromma the view of preserving the insects from certain oftheir cases, however, occur of no less perfect
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