... introductory addresses.” True, there are exceptions to the general rule that such orations are usually as backboneless as are jelly-fishes, and devoid of anything save lucubrations on everything in general. Mr. W. S. Gilbert, in lolanthe,” makes one of his ...

... regarding evolution, and devoted a good deal of perfectly irrelevant talk to the loves of a couple of supposititious primeval jellyfishes, the late Professor Huxley very neatly reminded his Lordship that if every theory of the mode of evolution were banished ...

... clear green water swelled and gurgled round the weedy piles of the quay, bringing on its surface tokens from the seashadowy jelly-fish, weed, and froth. The Last Hope v\'as quite close at hand now, swinging up in mid-stream. The sun had set, and over the ...

... MISSION. • ■ I .» Jgr ' ■ _-mf r ■*»-* .■■ ff. 9_ p SCIENCE JOTTINGS JELLY-FISH HISTORY. One day lately, tempted out of its development by a passing warmth, appeared the first jelly-fish of the season. In early May, when the weather has been genial, swarms ...

... the pinions, so to speak, of a soft diaphanous web—a substance which in its loveliness was like those iridescent, opal jelly-fish which one sees mystically globed in the under waters of warm bays. This web appeared to proceed from his shoulders, and ...

... SCIENCE JOTTINGS. ABOUT JELLYFISHES. RECENT correspondence and annotations have revived an interest in the jellyfish class. Contrary to public opinion, the animals included within the limits of that division of the animal world present us with many features ...

... as in certain forms of biological struggle there is an advantage in the smallness of the gnat or the shapelessness of the jellyfish. Competition does not mean merely the triumph of the worst ; it actually means the triumph of the weakest. Private life is ...

... when these buds are watched ated from the colony which gave them birth. Each pulsates through the sea, after the manner of jellyfishes all, pumping its way through the yielding waters to which in the delicacy of its substance it is so near akin. Then it develops ...

... do not exhibit the jellyfish grade, but content themselves with two sets of members, the one devoted to the nourishment, and the other to the production of new colonies. This last, as we shall see, is the function of the jellyfish buds. CHART. Trace now ...

... It is clear that this jelly-fish stage com plicates matters. It is interpolation, so to speak, such as arouses the interest of the naturalist, and impels him to inquire why it is that some of our animal colonies possess a jellyfish stage intervening in ...

... developments which began in lowly organisms, whose primitive ears are perhaps best typified by the hearing organs of the jelly-fishes of to-day. If one were tempted to doubt this biological history, he might find its confirmation writ large in the study ...

... possibly that seen in the jellyfishes. All these organisms are provided with stinging-cells, called thread - cells ; but in many species the darts have no power of penetrating the human epidermis. The common species of jellyfishes can be handled freely without ...