... delicate threads line silk, alternately light and dark in colour, characters which exist even in the contractile tissues of the jelly-fish; laterally these fibres appear to be composed of alternate light and dark minute discs. The nuclei observed in the fibres ...

... properly, the salt was penetrating my shut lips, pouring down my ears into my throat and making my eyes sting like ten thousand jelly-fish. I struggled to the surface, coughing my lungs up and feeling as if my whole skull would burst. clambered, more dead than ...

... attached. We ate it in the company of a man wearing a sock over the wiggling stump of one arm. Equally startling was finding jellyfish like floating polythene bags in the shallows. Within a few days we were laughing at our early unease, relaxing completely ...

... The Horror of the Heights, tells of the problems posed for early aviators at great altitudes by a type of malignant aerial jelly-fish. Both these stories are Wellsian in tone, and like much of Wells’s work in Edwardian times appeared in The Strand Magazine ...

... ; the holothuria, and other living creatures, that afford shelter inside them to many small fishes ; the phosphorescent jellyfish, meteors of the sea ; the climbing perch and others which can live on shore; the sword-fish, the reputed sea-serpent, the ...

... reasonably intact specimen to the laboratory on board Alvin's mother ship Lulu. Study there showed the creature to be a colonial jellyfish, a community of individuals filtering unknown food. The shellfish all show characteristics which are tantalizingly similar ...

... magnet in life than food. Sometimes great patches of the water were coloured a deep purple by incredible numbers of delicate jellyfish. A long bamboo stem that we brought aboard .bore clusters pale pink, white, and yellow goosebarnacles on every twig, so that ...

... beautiful little eyes discovered by Moseley in the armadillo shells or chitons, the eyes of star-fishes, of sea-urchins and of jelly-fish, each call for special description in a survey. of the various kinds of eye-structure presented by animals. We must return ...

... Chanticleer |3to agst Canezoa |4to agst Van Tromp ASCOT STAKES. to 2 agst Essidarius (t) 1 9to I agst Gardenia (t) Iloto 1 agst Jelly-fish Swordplayer 10 to 1 Glutton 1 12 to 1 Cymba 100 to 12 8t Antonio (t) j 10 to I Vampyre 1 12 to 1 Chicaneur to 1 Camphine ...

... 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 ...

... lectures of those times, the echinoderms were included among the lower invertebrates, together with the sponges and the jellyfishes. Today, the echinoderms are placed, in the textbooks and the lectures, at the head of the invertebrates, and next door to ...

... at the shoulder. There are, of course, the giant squid of the Atlantic, 55 ft. long, including the tentacles, and giant jellyfish of the Pacific, 7 ft. in diameter. There are also giant earthworms in Australia to 12 ft. long. If we compare a whole the ...