... we honestly confess that we much 1 prefer lying on the beach with the book of M1r. Rymer Jones in our hand, to handling jellyfish. f nettlefish, starfish, et id genus onne. Every man to his taste ; to ours they are clammy, disagreeable r creatures, full ...

... ers, and to cultivate acquaintance among the oldest inhabitants of the shore of his watering place, whe- ther crabs or jelly-fishes, gasteropod molluscs or compound ascidians, will receive from none of the many pleasant books upon salt-water life written ...

... Mediterranean. Yet there is hardly an increase of life ; for even in the frozen north, where swims leviathan, the minute jelly-fishes, covering and tinging with an olive green a fourth part of tbe surface of the Greenland Sea, were reckoned by Dr.Scoresby ...

... mysterious subject. It is now no longer a matter of doubt thatalmost all the inferior marine animal., particularly the jelly-fishes, many molluscs and aunelides, crustaceans and infusoria, possess the faculty of emitting a phosphoric light,_- and addingtheir ...

... and turned into a water- dog, and jumped arid danced round Toni, and ran over the crests of sthe waves, and snapped at the jelly-fish and the mackerel, and followed Tom the whole way to the Other-enrd-of-Nowhere. )We are tempted to quote more, but we have ...

... inhabitants of an aquarium with the point of his gold pencil, in the apparent hope of getting up intimate relations with a jelly-fish. He would beguile the golded inmates of a crystal globe by tearing up minute fragments of one of his visiting cards, and ...

... of continuity in their body. Mr Dallas rather disdains the tendency of men to look for the finger of God in crabs and jelly-fishes. but when we have found out that Lear and the Iliad are to be studied as harmonious parts in one great science of Art, ...

... amount of pleasant information on the least familiar branches of natural history. This, for instance, is from a chapter on jelly-fish: A soft gelatinous transparent or translucent body, without a cal- careous skeleton or intestinal duct, and whose parts ...

... geiseral, and tlse heat of the sun in particular; thence everytibimg - erratic biosks, masarble, coal, chalk, protoplasmia, jelly-fish, turtlo-soup, chab-feet, wooden legs, Bengtid tigerE, Shakespeare's plays, Bain's Logic, &c. The s cause of nil these is ...

... throughout: Sunday, 20th February.-A quiet Sunday, with nothing to break its peaceful calm. The sheeny sea is crowded with jelly-fish, which are to be seen floating past the ship in countless thousands. They are larger and nuore beautiful than those met ...

... themselves, Their pleasures are rough and boisterous; they ; wado about bare legged in the pools of water, they fish for jelly-fish, which they bring into the drawing-room I on a stick. White mere urchins they learn to box, and they box with gloves before ...

... can alwsans eat thesll i Bu, do not forgrst to put in plenty of psiris with them, for flikn to orubsist or1. Asenrores and jelly-fish aro ratier unsintorretirg, pots, burt it is riot ai bad plss to kcep a few iil your :%iarnuIeu, as they will alwass casll ...