Glimpses of Ocean Life 2

Glimpses of Ocean Life 2

 CHAPTER XVIII.

 

STAR-FISHES, ETC.

 

The Coral polypes--The Lily-stars--St. Cuthbert's

beads--_Pentacrinus europæus_--Rosy feather star

_Ophiuridæ_--Brittle-stars--_Ophiocomo-rosula_--British

asteridæ--_Uraster rubens_--Habits of this species--Submarine

Dandos--Sir John Dalyell--Professor Jones--Star-fish feeding

on the oyster--Bird's foot Sea-star--_Luidia

fragillissima_--Cushion-stars--Professor Forbes, 269

 

 

CHAPTER XIX.

 

SEA-URCHINS.

 

Sea Urchins in the tank--Growth of the Echinus--Its

hedgehog-like spines--Suckers and pores--Ambulacral

tubes--Professor Agassiz--Movements of the

Echinus--_Pedicellariæ_--Masticatory

apparatus--Common Egg Urchin--_Echinus sphæra_--How

to remove the spines--'Do you boil your sea eggs?'--The

Green-pea Urchin--The Silky-spined Urchin--The Rosy-heart

Urchin, 287

 

 

CHAPTER XX.

 

THE SEA-CUCUMBER.

 

Its unattractive appearance out of water--Trepang--Several

varieties eaten by the Chinese--Common Sea Cucumber--Habits

of the Holothuriæ--Their self-mutilation and renewal of

lost parts, 301

 

 

CHAPTER XXI.

 

THE APLYSIA, OR SEA-HARE.

 

Anecdote--The Sea Hare plentiful at North Berwick--Its

powers of ejecting a purple fluid at certain times--Sea

Hares abhorred by the ancients--Professor Forbes--Spawn

of the Aplysia, 307

 

 

CHAPTER XXII.

 

SERPULÆ AND SABELLÆ.

 

Tubes of the _Serpulæ_--Dr. Darwin--The harbour

of Pernambuco--Its wonderful structure--Reproduction of

the _Serpulæ_--_Sabellæ_--Their sandy

tubes, &c., 313

 

 

CHAPTER XXIII.

 

THE SOLEN, OR RAZOR FISH.

 

How it burrows in the sand--How specimens are

caught--_Cum grano salis_--Bamboozling the Spout

Fish--Amateur naturalists, and fishermen at the

sea-shore, 321

 

 

CHAPTER XXIV.

 

A GOSSIP ON FISHES--INCLUDING THE ROCKLING, SMOOTH BLENNY,

GUNNEL FISH, GOBY, ETC.

 

Punch's address to the ocean--Old blue-jackets and the

'galyant' Nelson--The ocean and its inhabitants--Life

beneath the wave--Fishes the happiest of created

things--A fishy discourse by St. Antony of

Padua--Traveller's ne'er do lie?--The veracious

Abon-el-Cassim--Do fishes possess the sense of

hearing--Author's experience--An intelligent Pike

fish--Dr. Warwick--The Blenny in its native

haunts--A 'Little Dombey' fish--Anecdote--The

Viviparous Blenny--The Gunnel fish--Five-bearded

Rockling--Two-spotted Goby--Diminutive

Sucker-fish--Montagu's Sucker--The

Stickleback--Its nest-building habits

described--Conclusion, 327

 

 

CHAPTER XXV.

 

ON THE FORMATION OF MARINE AQUARIÆ, ETC.

 

Mimic oceans--Practical hints on marine

aquariæ--Various tanks described--The 'gravity

bubble'--Evaporated sea-water--Aquariæ in

France--Sea-water a contraband article across the

Channel--An aquarium on a fine summer's day--The

Lettuce Ulva--Author's tank--'Excavations on a

rocky shore'--Tank 'interiors'--Various centre

pieces--New siphon--Aquariæ difficult to keep in

hot weather--How to remove the opacity of the

tank--New scheme proposed--Conclusion, 353

 

 

 

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

 

 

No.

 

FRONTISPIECE, 1

 

COMPOUND VORTICELLÆ, 2

 

"GRANNY," Sir John Dalyell's celebrated Anemone, 3

 

A. TROGLODYTES, 4

 

A. CRASSICORNIS, 5

 

EDIBLE CRAB, 6

 

EDIBLE CRAB casting its Shell (from Nature), 7

 

SPIDER CRAB, 8

 

SHORE CRAB, 9

 

PORCELAIN CRAB, 10

 

HERMIT CRAB, 11

 

HERMIT CRAB in Shell of Large Whelk, 12

 

SHIP BARNACLES, 13

 

ACORN BARNACLES attached to Shell of the Limpet, 14

 

THE LIMPET, as seen from beneath, 15

 

LAMINATED NEREIS, 16

 

COMMON MUSSEL,--Shell open, 17

 

COMMON MUSSEL,--Shell closed, 18

 

THE BERÖE, 19

 

FAN AMPHITRITE, 20

 

TEREBELLA FIGULUS, 21

 

TEREBELLA LITTORALIS, 22

 

THE SEA-MOUSE, 23

 

DORIS, 24

 

YOUNG OF DORIS, 25

 

EOLIS, 26

 

THE PHOLAS, and Valves of its Shell, 27

 

THE BRITTLE STAR, 28

 

COMMON CROSS-FISH, 29

 

COMMON SUN-STAR (with 14 rays), 30

 

PURPLE-TIPPED SEA-URCHIN, 31

 

PURPLE-TIPPED SEA-URCHIN, Spine of, 32

 

PURPLE-TIPPED SEA-URCHIN, Suckers of, 33

 

THE APLYSIA, or SEA-HARE, 34

 

TEETH of the SEA-URCHIN (two views), 35

 

THE SEA-CUCUMBER, 36

 

SERPULÆ attached to piece of rock, 37

 

THE SOLEN, or RAZOR FISH, 38

 

THE BLENNY, 39

 

THE VIVIPAROUS BLENNY, 40

 

THE SPOTTED BLENNY, or GUNNEL-FISH, 41

 

THE MONTAGU SUCKER-FISH (three views), 42

 

THE MONTAGU SUCKER-FISH, Sucker of (magnified), 43

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER I.

 

INTRODUCTORY.

 

On the Pleasures derived from the Study of Marine Zoology.

 

 

'Woe to the man--

Who studies nature with a wanton eye,

Admires the work, but slips the lesson by.