﻿BIVALVE CRUSTACEANS AND BARNACLES. 



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rock. It will be much better to take them from the wooden 

 piers, or, if possible, specimens should be collected attached 

 to some pebble. These may now be placed in a jar or bowl 

 of salt-water ; and, if they are watched closely, there will be 

 seen a set of fringed arms, like hairs, thrust out at the top of 

 the shell, which, stretching out with graceful curves, close and 

 partly retract w^ithin the opening. This motion will be con- 

 stantly and rapidly repeated. There are six pairs of these 

 appendages, and they are flung out in this way to grasp the 

 minute particles in the water, which serve them as food. 

 The arms being jointed and fringed w^ith delicate hairs, the 

 w^hole combined forms a sort of net. In Fig. 140, (7, the 

 tip of one of these arms is shown, highly magnified. 



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Fig. 140. — A, Side-View of Barnacle, Natural Size, showing Appendages protruded for Food; 

 B^ Top-View of same closed ; C, highly-magnified View of the Tip of one of the Appendages, 



137. Inland pupils may break open the barnacles collected 

 on the oyster-shell, and, taking out the soft parts, may examine 

 them by placing the parts in water, when the fringed arms 

 become apparent ; and under the microscope the delicate hairs 



