Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig 21/. Donax politus. more rounded shells of the Trough-shell (Mactrastultprum, fig. 218) are also numerous. The shellsof the mussel, limpet, rocks, stones, iron drain-pipes,&c, are profusely covered with the Acorn Barnacle(Balanus balanoides), and the rocks are perforatedin all directions by Pholas dactylus, one of the mostwonderful of Natures excavators. There are other objects besides those which wehave enumerated thus briefly, each of which has ahistory, and possesses an inter
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig 21/. Donax politus. more rounded shells of the Trough-shell (Mactrastultprum, fig. 218) are also numerous. The shellsof the mussel, limpet, rocks, stones, iron drain-pipes,&c, are profusely covered with the Acorn Barnacle(Balanus balanoides), and the rocks are perforatedin all directions by Pholas dactylus, one of the mostwonderful of Natures excavators. There are other objects besides those which wehave enumerated thus briefly, each of which has ahistory, and possesses an interest; but had we at- Oct. 1,1S67.] HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 221 tempted more than this barren enumeration, thepresent number of Science-Gossip would have con-tained but a single chapter—a consummation not
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