...give it in his own words. " Having placed a portion of sponge in a watch-glass with some sea-water, I beheld for the first time the splendid spectacle...in rapid succession opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention...

...bringing one of the apertures on the side of the sponge fully into view, I beheld for the first time the spectacle of this living fountain, vomiting forth...in rapid succession opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention,...

...and looked at it with a microscope, said : " I beh Id for the first time the splendid spectacle of a living fountain vomiting forth from a circular cavity...in rapid succession opaque masses which it strewed everywhere around. Tne beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention."...

...opaque particles of the fluid. "On moving the watch glass," says he, "so as to bring one of the orifices on the side of the sponge fully into view, I beheld...circular cavity an impetuous torrent of liquid matter and hustling along in rapid succession opaque masses which were strewed everywhere around. The beauty and...

...waves and an occasional lone gull to break the silence: On moving the watch-glass, so as to bring one of the apertures on the side of the sponge fully into...rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested my attention,...

...that we have attempted to describe. " He says : — ' On moving the watch-glass, so as to bring one of the apertures on the side of the sponge fully into...rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention,...