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DRUIDICAL REMAINS— A WRECK OFF SCILLY— GEOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY 

 OP THE ISLES— EFFECT OF LIGHT ON PLANTS AND ANIMALS : 

 HISTORY OF ITS DISCOVERY — THE PIPE-FISH AND ITS INCUBA- 

 TION — FISH PARADOXES — AN AQUARIUM— SUICIDE OF THE STAR- 

 FISH — THE PLEUROBRANCHUS — DEVELOPMENT OF EOLIS, DORIS, AND 

 ACTiEON — SHELL AND NO SHELL — THE PEDICELLINA : IS IT VIVI- 

 PAROUS? — THE SAGITTA: a PUZZLE TO ZOOLOGISTS — WHERE THERE 

 IS NO RESPIRATION THERE WILL BE NO CIRCULATION — THE CHYL- 

 AQUEOUS FLUID OF ANEMONES PROVED NOT TO EXIST — EARLIEST 

 STAGE OF A NUTRITIVE FLUID — FUNCTION OF THE '' CONVOLUTED 

 bands"— DELIGHTS OF LITERATURE. 



The traveller's first wish is Shakespeare's — 



'' I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes 

 With the memorials and the things of fame 

 That do renown this city." 



At Scilly there is no city, and this non-existent city 

 boasts " no things of fame,'' unless we choose so to 

 consider the grave where Sir Cloudesley Shovel was 

 first interred — which crowns the negative attractions 

 of the Isles by being no grave at all. I am quite 

 serious. They ask you here, whether you have seen 

 the grave ; on investigation, this renowned spot turns 

 out to be destitute even of the rudest stone or land- 

 mark to indicate where the bones of the wrecked 

 admiral may imaginatively be supposed to lie ; it is 



