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... 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 ...
... disappeared , and the Bshennen instead found the nets choked with jellyfish . Some nets ¦ • were so full that' they were got - out ' only with difficulty , . one containing a ton and a half pf jellyfish ; ' ' - ¦ - ...
... 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- ...
... quantity , so tho jelly-fishes wax in size-and strength . In our temperate seas and in tho colder northern ocean minuto floating lifo is more rich in numbers than it is in tho Tropic oceans ; and in the cold northern oceanB the larger jelly-fish are found . ...
... 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 ...
... Thereafter Mr Duncan takes us on enchanted rambles , in which he chats on seaweeds , the story of the sand , and cliffs , jelly-fish and moss animals , worms , and shell-dwellers , each speoimen being- illustrated ' . vith photographs . In the second part ...
... of dupes—our doom unriddled, A certain portion of the human race Has certainly a taste for being diddled. Tom Hood. THE JELLYFISH : T' won't do to think that kiln' ain't perlite— You've got to be in airnest, ef you fight. -3-. R. Lowell. They have only ...
... 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 ...
... K ^ . E . Sir ARTHUE . ROSE , D . S . O . Tioicsor DAR . CY TV . THOMPSON . C . B ., r . R . i Mooday , 23 tU Dk . — JELLY-FISHES . Wednesday , 31 a Dec- CRAY-FISHES . • Fxioay , 2 nd Jan .- THE WHALE-FISHERY . ProfesMr R .. A . SA 51 PS 0 ...
... be fatal to the agricultural interests of tho United Kingdom . Xn these days , when small and noisy factions can sciueose jellyfish Ministers of ¦ vote-catching capacities ( says his Lordship ) , it is most d-esirable that the Minister who ha © control ...
... FKDLAY , K . B £ . Sir A 2 THUR , 3 UBE , D . S . O . Professor D'AECY W . THOMPSON . GB ., FJIS . Monday . 29 th Dec— JELLY-FISHES . ' . Vedaefday . 31 st Dec— CIUY-FISHES . Friday , 2 nd Jan . — THE WHALE-FISHERY . Professor E . A . SAMPSOX ...
... observed . Numerous small fishes shelter themselves beneath the tentacles of jelly-fish , and a partnership is entered into ' whereby the yiiall fisk share the food which the jelly-fish stupefies , while it is relioved ' of parasites which infest it . ¦ Pa ...