CHAPTER I. 



DEPARTURE FROM SCILLT — JERSEY — SCHOOLBOY RECOLLECTIONS — 

 CHOICE OP A SPOT — PREJUDICES AGAINST DISSECTION — ZOOLOGY 

 OF JERSEY — TRAWLING — DIFFICULTIES OF IDENTIFICATION — A 

 STRANGE ASCIDIAN — THE TADPOLE EMBRYO OF A MOLLUSC — A 

 PARADOX — DEVELOPMENT OF MEDUSA FROM POLYPES — ALL ANI- 

 MALS DO NOT COME FROM EGGS — REPRODUCTION OF THE HYDRA — 

 HISTORY OF PARTHENOGENESIS — A DISCOVERY — ANIMALS PRODUCED 

 FROM GERM-CELLS ONLY— STEENSTRUP'S THEORY — OWEN'S THEORY 

 —A NEW THEORY — THE THREE FORMS OF REPRODUCTION : FISSI- 

 PAROUS, GEMMIPAROUS, AND OVIPAROUS — WHAT IS PARTHENOGEN- 

 ESIS ? 



Aftee seven weeks, tlie rocks of Scilly appeared to 

 have seen enough of me. A residence so protracted 

 astonished and fatigued them. They knew all my vary- 

 ing moods, and one unvarying, not pictm-esque costume. 

 Familiar with the ring of my hammer, as it chiselled 

 with savage pertinacity at their granite ribs, they were 

 not less familiar with the compass of my voice, and the 

 extent of my operatic reminiscences, as, seduced by their 

 solitudes, to the orchestral inspiration of their waves I 

 loosened all the power of my lungs in lyrical fervour. 

 For seven weeks had our intimacy lasted, and now there 

 arose the conviction that the time for separation had 

 arrived. Nothing new could possibly be learnt about 

 me. Their curiosity was satisfied, if not satiated ; and 



