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Dzvellers of the Sea and Shore 



authors should have known better, we find unique de- 

 scriptions, assertions that these are low forms of life 

 belonging to various places In the animal kingdom. 



An examination with a strong glass will reveal the 

 sandy surface to be a skillfully wrought protective shell, 



EGG CASE OF THE MOON SNAIL. 



underneath which is a single layer of transparent glob- 

 ular capsules. These are arranged compactly, but in 

 a roughly quincuncial manner. So small are they that 

 there are more than sixteen hundred in the area of a 

 square Inch. But, mind, these are not the eggs them- 

 selves. The eggs are bodies still more minute. There 

 are a dozen and more suspended freely In the humor of 



