. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. These oiiceful objects aie not seaweeds, but the homes of several hundred beautiful animals. THE 5T0RY OF SOME STRANGE ANIMAL COLONIES. By F. Maetin Duncan, IF it were possible to obtain a censusof all the pretty flotsam and jetsamgathered during the annual holiday, asmementos of pleasant rambles by the dancing,sunlit waves, the graceful seaweed-like objectsportrayed here would be found to be in themajority. Cast ashore by the ebbing tide,their graceful feathery fronds all glitteringwith prismatic colours, they may
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. These oiiceful objects aie not seaweeds, but the homes of several hundred beautiful animals. THE 5T0RY OF SOME STRANGE ANIMAL COLONIES. By F. Maetin Duncan, IF it were possible to obtain a censusof all the pretty flotsam and jetsamgathered during the annual holiday, asmementos of pleasant rambles by the dancing,sunlit waves, the graceful seaweed-like objectsportrayed here would be found to be in themajority. Cast ashore by the ebbing tide,their graceful feathery fronds all glitteringwith prismatic colours, they may well rankamongst the most beautiful waifs of the seaand be treasured as mementos of the happysummer days spent by therestless waves; while if theromantic and wonderfulstory of their life historywere more generallyknown, they would be stillmore valued and keenlysought by the holiday-maker. For a long while thefeathery, seaweed-likethings were a sore puzzleto all scientific men, andthe cause of many fierceand wordy battles; sothat for a while the worldof science was
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