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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ... lining of his stomach and digestive tube, that you might believe the real prawn still stood upon the rock. But no! the creature himself is rolling helplessly over, his soft body being scarcely able to keep itself in position, and if any animal were to seize him now his death-hour would have arrived. He knows this well and soon begins to strike out his abdomen and work his swimmerets which are gradually stiffening and strengthening, and so manages to swim or creep into some sheltered nook, where his inner coat, which has long been forming, hardens, and he is a valiant prawn again. He is now quite clean and bright and beautiful, and he loves to remain so, and is most particular about his toilet, in fact the prawn is one of the few crustacea which has been seen to brush himself up with great care, though probably many others do it. We have noticed that his strongest claws are not on the front pair of feet as in the crab and lobster, but on the second pair. The front claws are fine and delicate, and carry little brushes on their tips; and the prawn has been seen standing on his four hinder pair of legs with his tail tucked under him, and using his front pair to brush his swimmerets, afterwards passing them through his foot-jaws to clear the dirt off the brushes! The little broad-claw crab cleans himself with the hind pair ol feet instead of the front ones. Not so the large crabs, the backs of which we so often find covered with weed and shells and small tube-worms which have settled upon them, so that when a crab is old and does not change his shell, lie often carries a perfect colony of life about with liim. If the prawn is the crystal fairy of the sea. Fig. 59 Early life of a Crab. I, A crab soon after birth; 1', natural size. 2, A crab after changing its sk...

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LIFE AND HER CHILDREN; GLIMPSES OF ANIMAL LIFE FROM THE AMCEBA TO THE INSECTS - 1881. LIFE AND HER CHILDREN LIFE IN THE-DEEP SEA . for description see Itst cfillustrat ons. His parent hand, From the mute shell-fish gaiping 011 the shore, To men, to angels, to celestial minds, For ever leads tile generations on To 11igher scenes of being 1s-hile supplied From day to day mith his enliveiling breath, Inferior orders in succession rise To fill the void below - PREFACE - THE plan of this work is so fully explained in the Introductory Chapter that but little preface is needed. Its main object is to acquaint young people with the structure and habits of the lower forms of life and to do this in a more systematic way than is usual in ordinary works on Natural History, and more simply than in text-books on Zoology. For this reason I have adopted the title Life and her Children, to express the family bond uniting all living things, as we use the term Nature and her Works, to embrace all organic and inorganic phenomena and I have been more careful to sketch in bold outline the leading features of each division, than to dwell upon the minor differences by which it is separated into groups. I have made use of British examples in illustration wherever it was possible, and small specimens of most of the marine animals. figured Inay be found upon our coasts at low tide. In conclusion, I wish to express my great obligation to Mr. R. Garnett of the British Museum, for his most kind assistance in finding works of reference on the special subjects and to many men of science, especially Mr. Lowne, F. lI. C. S., and Mr. Haddon, Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge, for their valuable criticisms on the proof-sheets. The Illustrations of the marine animals have been drawn by Dr. Wild, artist of the Challenger Expedition, and those of the insects by Mr. Edwin Wilson, to both of whom my thanks are due, for the care and assiduity with which they have carried out my instructions. ARABELL B A . B UCKLEY. CON CHAPTER I. PAGE LIFE AND HER CHILDREN . I CHAPTER 11. LIFES S1bl PLEST CHILDREN H , O W THEY LIVE, A ND MOVE, AND BUILD . . I4 CHAPTER 111. How SPONGE L S I VE . 33 CHAPTER IV. THE LASSO-THROWERS OF THE PONDS AND OCEANS . 50 CHAPTER V. How STAR-FI W I A I LK A ND SEA-URCHIN C S R OW . 17 CHAPTER VI. THE MANTLE-COVERED A NIMALS A , ND HOW THEY LIVE WITH HEADS A ND WITHOUT THEM . . . . 103 CHAPTER VII. TIIE O UTCASTS O F ANIMAL L IFE, A ND THE EI. ASTIC-RINGED A h - 1 3 1 1 B . Y SEA A ND BY LAND . F . I35 COIVTEN TS. Cl-IAPTER VIII. PAGE THE L I L E V D A R R I O I O F TIIE SEA, WITH RINGED B ODIES CHAPTER IX. TIIE S N ZRE--EA A V SD E T R II S E IR I UKTIN R G E I. AI I OKS . 178 CHAPTER X INSECI. SLCICER A S S1 1 UIIERS VIIICII CIIANGE TIIliTR CUATS BUT XOT IIIEII BOIII S . . 201 CI-IAPTEK XI. IXSI. CT SIPPER A S S 11 G S A E R W S H ICII REMODEL TIIEIR BODIES YITIIIS 1. III,. IR CO. I S . 233 CII, ZIITER XTI. INTELLIGENT ISSECI S IT 11 IIELPLESS C IIILDREN, AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE ASTS D 8 269 TION PLATE I. LIFE IN THE DEEP SEA.-I. Sea-Lily, Pezzfac-rilltrs asferzia. 2. Sponge, Eup ecfelln aspergrIZunz. 3. Coral, Lopho-AeZia prol ra. 4. Sea-Urchin, Echinzrs elegans. 5. Basket-fish, Asto-Ophyfon linkii. 6. Sea-cucumber, adohactylcaro cca. 7. Jelly-fish, Pela3. ia zocfiZzrca. 8. Yteropod, Cliopyamidafa. PLATE 1 1. INSECLTIF E.-I. Ant-Lion in its pit with whole insect shown above. I a. Ant - lion flying. 2...

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