JULY 1902. 



MYRIADS of medusae or jellyfishes are constantly streaming 

 past our door, apparently without any powers of volition of 

 their own, but helplessly at the mercy of the tides. Of 

 various sizes, shapes, and colours, they impart quite a gay 

 appearance to the seascape, somewhat resembling a grassy 

 sward carpeted with beautiful flowers huge sunflowers 

 predominating the whole moving silently just beneath the 

 green, glassy surface. Great tremulous discs, twelve inches 

 in diameter, trail their streaming tentacles several feet 

 behind them ; others, again, no larger than a pea possess the 

 power of radiating, from the ciliary bands with which they 

 are furnished, all the colours of the rainbow. Stranded high 

 and dry, what a contrast to their former glory, now an inert 

 mass of slobbery mucilage. At one period of their existence 

 they appear quite plant-like in their habits. Attached to the 

 rocks, they closely resemble miniature fir trees, each plant 

 ultimately producing whole colonies of juvenile medusae. 

 Fish have been fairly plentiful this month, but owing to the 

 work at present in progress we have but little time to avail 

 ourselves of the opportunity. On the 6th a red chequered 

 pigeon, stamped "J. B. Sollaway, Beeston," on wing, was 

 released after a night's detention. On Saturday the 12th, 

 other two pigeons were captured at 8.30 p.m. One a red 

 chequered homer, with aluminium ring on leg marked N.TJ. 

 01, H.A. 587, also rubber racing ring on other leg, marked 

 132 outside and 263 Q inside; the other a blue chequered 

 homer, with leg ring marked N.TJ. 99, C. 8953, and racing 

 ring marked Q 513 inside and 174 outside; wing feathers 

 stamped "Walter H. Walker, Bank House, Horsforth, 

 Leeds." Both pigeons, after being watered and fed, were 

 released at 11 a.m. on 13th, each steering a sou'-westerly course 

 from the Rock. 



