point that in the economy of Nature, males are 

 one of its redundancies. 



And this being the case, with what greater mar- 

 vel can we look upon the mystery of the growing 



e g§ ! 



IV 



Feeding the many mouths of my strange family 

 threatens to become a problem in the days to fol- 

 low. The impending difficulty is not that I am 

 unaware of what they will eat, but that I know 

 not how to feed them lest the method become a 

 serious time-consuming labor — or at best a bother- 

 some routine. I hit upon a plan, however, that 

 solves the difficulty. Once a day I prepare a small 

 measure of a kind of salt-water broth composed of 

 bits of clam, or finely divided crab meat, or maybe 

 flaked fish, and gently stir a portion of this simply 

 concocted soup into the miniature tanks contain- 

 ing the young jellyfishes. After a lapse of a few 

 hours, during which they find their fill from among 

 the floating particles, the water is removed and the 

 tanks are replenished from a clean and wholesome 

 supply, just as it comes from the middle of the 

 Sound. 



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