bility of seeing to any great extent in the almost 

 total daytime darkness of the depths or the gloom 

 of moonless nights; the eye cannot accommodate 

 itself as can, for instance, the eye of a cat. There- 

 fore the maintenance of so close an association in 

 these circumstances plainly implies the possession 

 of another contactual aid by the individual than 

 the sense of sight. That this is scent, it is patent. 

 That its seat is in the ink bag, it seems quite 

 certain. 



Elsewhere in this volume, I have given some 

 account of how I once came upon the egg capsules 

 of Loligo. The eggs were contained in cocoons 

 which composed a cluster of fifteen spindle-shaped, 

 jelly-like masses, each measuring about four inches 

 long by one half inch in largest diameter. Each 

 cocoon was attached at one end, in conjunction 

 with its neighbors, to a seaweed; and the eggs in 

 each numbered nearly one thousand. 



Space again precludes any elaboration upon the 

 details incident to the development and hatching 

 of the young in the environment of the laboratory. 

 The various minor changes in the transformation 



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