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REMARKS 



ON THE 



PHYSIOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY 



OF THE 



MEDUSiE, VELELLiE, AND PORPIT^. 



BY 



FREDERICK ESCHSCHOLTZ. 



Though the number of authors who have written 

 on these anmials is not small, yet the more accu- 

 rate observer often finds many things which he 

 may add to what is already known, particularly in 

 what relates to their mode of life. These three 

 kinds of animals clearly belong to one order : 

 1. Because they remain nearly passive, swimming 

 on the surface of the sea in search of prey ; 2. Be- 

 cause, besides the body adapted for swimming on 

 the surface, they have as chief organs, the innu- 

 merable stomachs and mouths ; and, 3. Are all fur- 

 nished with particular arms for seizing their prey. 

 They live in the warmer regions of all seas ; and 

 do not appear to go beyond the fortieth degree of 

 latitude. 



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