

Fig. 49. Ihe plate of Rrauimn ,1712) sh.mino ihc ■ dail.' ihe luminous mollusc 

 (Pholas dactylus), which lives in holes in the rock ,alxnc) . ami lu,. \ iews of a 

 brittle star or snake star, manv of which are luminous (below). Rcaunuirs classic 

 paper, " Dcs Merxeilles des Bails on de la Lumicre qifils Repandent.- was published 

 in 1723, akso in the Mcmoires of the French .\cademv. In the late nineteenth centiirv 

 luminescence in this form was intensiveh studied bv Raphael Dubois. 



