... STINGS OF JELLYFISHES. The stin7ing threads of the common jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) are not strong titing), to pierce the ordinary human skin. but bathers on British coasts have sometimes painful experience of the virulence of the orange or the blue ...

... possibly that seen in the jellyfishes. All these organisms are provided with stinging-cells, called thread - tells ; but in many species the darts have no power of penetrating the human epidermis. The common species of jellyfishes can be handled freely ...

... of course. as the points out, in which constitation•l arise after the stings of the jelly•fish. but tlwse. on 1110 144101 e. •re rare. The jellyfish stings much in the same way as the nettle -that is. by means of all lurid fluid discharged through a filament ...

... direct offspring of jellyfish and of certain plants are of a wholly different type to the parent, while these have offspring which are a reversion to the original type. The generations of the jelly-fish arc alternately jelly-fish and sea anemone; those- ...

... dot of black pigment. The eye of the eagle may stand for the first, and the eye-spot of the or the eight sense germs of a jellyfish for the other extreme of the series. ...

... SALT AND FRESH WATER FISH. When a fresh•watcr eray•fish or a frog is put into salt water it dies. When a jelly-fish is put into fresh water it too tiles. This is due to a familiar quality of liquids known as osmosis, i.e.. the passage of fluids through ...

... PHOSPHORESCENT PLANTS. Among animals, phosphorescence is shown chiefly by various jellyfish, starfish, molluscs, and worms living in the sea. It is, says Professor T. Cavers, D.Ss., F.L.S., writing in the Univerrily Corred pondent, much more limited among ...

... not dead; its leas move a little, but its soft body is paralysed, and lies collapsed, flabby, and powerless as a stranded jellyfish. . . When the wasp has sufficiently rested after the struggle it deliberately drags the diaabled spider back into its own ...

... instance, bunnies I would treat To buns upon a plate; And if a python I should meet I'd use a pie for bait. If I desired a jellyfish Some jelly I would try; And I'd have butter on a dish To catch a butterfly. ♦ porcupine I would allure With pork of fine ...

... analogous means of offence or defence, as the case may be, writes Dr. Andrew Wilson in the Illutitrated London News. From the jellyfishes and their neighbours upwards. poison glands and darts are by no means infrequently met with. The insects are thus armed ...

... the production of four, each a quarter the normal size. Continuing the process. it has been found possible in the r of the jelly-fish to produce sixteen embryos from one egg. In some oases the eggs may he in two before natural division *scum and the parts ...

... hitherto bees believed to thrive only near the surface. The expedition secured a large number of huge' squids of great variety, jelly-fish, and prawn:. sonic of which were six inches in length. Curiouty enough. while some of the latter were quite blind. others ...