The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . Balanus balanoides. Balanus eburneus. neus, the ivory barnacle, which can be readily dis-tinguished from the preceding by its smooth broadform and its shelly base. It is abundant on allkinds of floating or submerged timbers, and notrarely accompanies the shells of various less frequently seen about our coast is thecoronated acorn (Coronula diadema)^ whose seat ofhabitation is the skin of the whale, with whichanimal it performs long journeys over the sea. V. WORM
The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . Balanus balanoides. Balanus eburneus. neus, the ivory barnacle, which can be readily dis-tinguished from the preceding by its smooth broadform and its shelly base. It is abundant on allkinds of floating or submerged timbers, and notrarely accompanies the shells of various less frequently seen about our coast is thecoronated acorn (Coronula diadema)^ whose seat ofhabitation is the skin of the whale, with whichanimal it performs long journeys over the sea. V. WORMS, MOSS-POLYPS, SPONGES, ETC. Worms are in a general way not very attrac-tive animals, yet they present much that is at thesame time interesting and beautiful. This is par-ticularly the case with the marine forms, whoseburrows can be traced almost everywhere over theexpanse of tidal flats which the retreating watersleave behind them. At these times the animalsremain well within their habitations, from whichthey can be readily extracted through the use ofa long-bladed garden-trowel. The many-footedNereis, whose su
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