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    NOTICES QE BOOKS. 67

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

    my circumstance return I saw that him I . In should the act have of backing just risen out from of his the shell perusal . It was of a a talented

    singularcrack author or , who fissure informed and from me thi that s point ' the of crab resistance hitches gives one more of its power claws in into emerg some ing

    and withdrawing , itself from could between the carapace and describe the tail what . ' had wit

    " Certainly no statement more inadequately I - _, nessed erfect in ease both but my I crabs am much . _! N " ot inclined only was to the believe whole with operation a degree performed of pleasure with .

    For p selfj a and while rubbed , one of his my antennae crabs stood and in wee juxtaposition peeping eyes to the as if shadow awakening of its former from a in state

    and sleep mi . all g He ht probabl had bri been ht y and have latel clear y surveyed , there again was thing On no s turning doubt around , living the him first somewhat an object oppressed that darkly , but ht ,

    his now awakened was g was his cast-off . * vestmentwhich , he seemed to scan caug as ; dubiously as a eye grown man would his an chin exhumed Well , pair of boy what ish will corduroys it , and '

    mutter musingly , while stroking , ' , come , can never be " my On case taking again it . in ' handthe Partane felt quite soft and velvetty to the

    touch Since , and then exhibited I have my no repeatedl signs , of had alarm shells . of crabs cast in smooth glass globes

    " y containing letelsubverts nothing the else statements but clear salt of certain water . writers This fact who , in assert my opinion that , these

    comthat p animals " Some the y require new writers parts extraneous have of the questioned crab assistance are the derived when truth from about of the the to general , old exuviate : ly that -received within . , for instance the opinion ,

    and a claw that is on regenerated exuviation within each is a claw withdrawn , a limb from within the a pre limb -existing , eyes organ as eye from s , a sheath . But my operations tend fully to confirm the popular and existing

    belief . . " lanation There is yet it one is not curious generall point undertood connected with I allude this subject to the which apparent requires

    disexp , as y . pared proportionate with the smallness size of the of regenerated the ' glassy bag limb , ' situated which is at supposed the stump to be , as folde com d -

    member up within we the can bag scarcel previous believe to exuviation it possible . On , that looking the transparent at the newl case y-formed could y

    be by any examined possibility _^ ; for , have althoug held h it in . shape The mystery it is perfect vanishes , even if the to the new most limb minut or claw e useless to the animal

    from particular the fact , it remains of its being for a utterl certain y devoid period of comparativel flesh . y , considered merel

    " The new _limbthereforecan be y as an expanded case , Immediatel _whichj hy a wonderful after , exuviation law of , has nature taken , becomes lace slowl and a y claw filled is up introduced and completed in the . p

    p can lac readily e of some y confirm mutilated the truth stump of , if what any I one have will , stated pull , off and the , moreover new member , be able , he

    to " test As into the reader how very may small remember bulk , the Groldsmith new limb states may that be rolled the crab . casts its snell regularla at the beginning of May' Professor Owen fixes the

    ' y once year , . exuviation date in the month takes of lace August annuall . y Professor with great Bell regularity states , that , until ' there the is growth no doubt is p

    Another completed professor , which , in tre many ating specie on the s , is same not before subject the thus animal writes is many ' We years are old told . '

    tained that all animal this coat , —the of , mail great is proficient annually thrown in Chinese whose on" works puzzles in , a sing have may le piece had well , b be y the posed con at

    this servation of examining greater apparentl puzzle repeat . ' the In confirm fact statement , all beyond writers . Mr a doubt . Ball , the who annual writes I moult from of personal opportunity Crustacea ob- .

    found This gentleman that , during , we each y learn year , kep its s t _escuvium a Cray-fish was alive shed , for but two once years . in a vase , and " It may readily be believedwith such a formidable array of contrary

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    Notices Qe Books. 67

    NOTICES _QE BOOKS . 67

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/67/