...proceeded in the most gentle manner to introduce Luidia to the purer element. Whether the cold water was too much for him, or the sight of the bucket too...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision." Quitting the starfishes, let me call attention to those pretty cowries and the naked molluscs : —...

...a bucket of cold fresh water, to which article Starfishes have a great antipathy. As I expected, & Luidia came up in the dredge, a most gorgeous specimen....with something exceedingly like a wink of derision. Young specimens are by no means so fragile as those full grown ; and the fivearmed variety seems less...

...seen escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm with the terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened...something exceedingly like a wink of derision." The common cross-fish is much less brittle than this, although able, when occasion requires, to lay aside...

...the sight of the bucket too terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve himself, at every mesh of the dredge, his fragments were seen...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision." — Forbes1 History of British Star-fishes. " The screaming sea-fowl, widening ring o'er ring Till...

...destructive exertions, and it is now badly represented in my cabinet by an armless disc and a discless arm. Next time I went to dredge on the same spot,...something exceedingly like a wink of derision."* The dismembered fragments of the Luidia continue active long after their dispersion. The feet move about...

...Forbes, "before it is raised above the surface of the sea, cautiously and anxiously I sunk my bucket, and proceeded in the most gentle manner to introduce...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision." With this exquisite specimen of natural history wonders, for which naturalists can only vouch that...

...or the sight of the bucket too terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve Jiis corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision.' This self-dissolution of the luidia and other star-fish is not, however, an act of suicide, inasmuch...

...fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed with...something exceedingly like a wink of derision." The red spots to be seen at the end of every ray of many star-fishes, surrounded by spines, have by some...

...the sight of the bucket too terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve himself; at every mesh of the dredge, his fragments were seen...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision."* Our readers may be surprised at the mention of an eye in a Star-fish ; there is, however, at the extremity...

...despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the exttemity of an arm, with its terminating eye, tie spinous eyelid of which opened and closed with something exceedingly like a wink of derision." We now come to the Sca-Urcl.ins, a family in whuh the rayed appearance is different from what it is...