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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 63

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    Grlimpses Of Ocean Life; Or, Mock Pools ...

    tlie hardened figures shell before with us which are technicall their bod y and and irreverentl limbs are y cased termed we ' know dummies has , ' felt the y

    the at Cressy throb and of many Agincourt , a true , or Eng perhaps lish heart on , the may blood be , g y listened fields of beneath Worcester the and sun

    Marston Moor . bygone " It requires centuries no , and great listen power to the of the ring imag of hostil ination e arms to transport , the sepulchral ourselves voices to

    of men whose heads are inurned in casques of steel , blended with the clash of battle-axes , the whizz of arrows , the neighing of steeds , the rattle of musketry , and at intervals reader the deep what booming has this cannon ' s roar of mail . clad warrior

    and " old But battle , asks -fields the gasp to ing do with so , prosaic a theme parade as the exuviation - of crabs ? s I must acknowledge that the question between is the a very two natural one , The for there appears will

    not althoug at , first I believe h si hardly ght , no appear less connexion singular so forced armory when other , I consisting mention subjects my of to various possession . and coats analogy of , a of smaller shell b y

    maileach of which , at one time or , belonged , was worn y a bloodless living , creature combats , and as proved any casque as effectual or helmet a protection worn by in kni many ght . fierce Unlik lete thoug e the h

    sentation armed dummies b , of _ISTature more the Tower truthful -a , - my than ie . specimens any photograp are perfect h , of , the and defunct give a comp originals , repre when - y capp curious collection of the cast off shells of various

    crabs "In which plain words have , from I own time a to time been under my protection . From the fact that , no museum in the kingdom contains a single series of such objects , the reader

    will exhibiting easil the conceive various the stages difficulty of growth there in any must crustaceous be in procuring animal , them , and consequentl y y the interest that attaches to the mysterious phenomenon of

    exuviation . . " Strange to say , the subject of this chapter is one of the least known in the

    few whole and range far from of natural well authenticated history . The . This facts state connected of things with appears the _23 roeess the more are extraordinary , , when we remember the great facility with which specimens of

    Crustacea " For years may past be found I have . paid much attention to the elucidation of this subject , and during that period have had to after submit to numberless mishaps and

    for disappointments months , anxiousl . For y expecting example , perhaps that exuviation watching would a tak ' pet e ' p day lace , after in nine day the cases out of had ten , — been ay , in ninety leted -nin when e out I was of the asleep hundred or that , —I the would animal find that had

    died process suddenly . In the comp latter case new specimens had , to be procured , and the same watching process repeated , in most cases with the like unhappy results

    . have acquainted "I been will now able with , however to what learn has , , up endeavor alread to the y been present as briefl written y time as , possible upon interspersing exuviation to make the , the as narrative far reader as I

    in with the such words notes of Shakespere as may seem , necessary to lay down by my way own of illustration ' penny of , and observation then proceed . ' , " The first clear and satisfactory remarks on this subject were made by the

    racy celebrated and truthfulness Reamur , who of this lived great above naturalist a century is ago attested : ' The , ' says unexamp one writer led accu , ' by

    the those fact of , that any other of all writer the observations of past or made present by times himself , and alone occupy , far ing exceeding in their published form numerous large quarto volumes , scarcely one has been

    contravened of half by the subsequent numerous credible ilation observers s on insect , whilst life they acknow have formed leded the or oth substance erwise comp , g , which have appeared since his time . '

    us , " in Goldsmith his usual , who free and derived easy his sty knowled le , that crustaceous of this subject animals from ( Reamur as crabs tells and

    Notices Of Books. 63

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 63

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/63/