CHAPTER III. 



LIVE ANIMALS SENT BY POST— THE MORTE STONE — "WANTED, A TIN 

 canister!" — THE BORING MOLLUSCS, PHOLAS, TEREDO, AND SAXI- 

 CAVA — HOW IS THE BORING EFFECTED ? — APPLICATION OP EMBRYO- 

 LOGY TO PRACTICAL PURPOSES — RESPIRATION OF THE PHOLAS — 

 DREDGING — THE SEA A PASSION — THE DEAD CEPHALOPOD AND ITS 

 COLOUR-SPECS — NEED OF A DOCTRINE — MORMON PREACHER— LOGIC 

 OP ZOOLOGISTS — CLEOPATRA'S PEARL — PRODUCE OF A GALE— THE 

 EOLIS : ITS STRUCTURE ; HOW DOES IT BREATHE ? REASONS FOR 

 REMOVING THE EOLTS FROM THE NUDIBRANCHIATES — WATER 

 MINGLING WITH THE BLOOD. 



Do you ever send live animals through the Post- 

 office? The question may startle, perhaps, but the 

 thing is often done. Only three days ago a brother 

 naturalist sent me a couple of dozen Sea- Anemones, 

 stowed among weed in a tin canister, which formerly 

 contained a powder unblushingiy sold behind a Chris- 

 tian counter as veritable coffee. The process is simple 

 enoufyh, when tin canisters are at hand, little as the 

 excellent Rowland Hill contemplated such an adapta- 

 tion of his postal reform to the exigencies of natu- 

 ralists ; but the process is less simple when you are 

 temporarily abiding in a place so utterly provincial 

 that little in the nature of tin boxes is to be had for 

 money, and nothing at all for love. Such a i3lace is 

 Tenby. 



