TWO YOUNG NATURALISTS. 



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small for it, and it is obliged to leave some part of 

 its person out of doors ; this part you see, and this is 

 what the learned term Sacculina. I must not omit to 

 mention that this discovery is due to a French pro- 



SEA-CUCUMBEK \Hoiotlntrio,). 



fessor, M. Delaage, and that it cost him three years 

 of observation and experiment. 



"Let us now pass to another;" but as he was 

 taking out of the box a magnificent Ophiura, the 

 creature unfortunately all at once became broken. 



" Confound the animal ! Would you believe," added 

 he, addressing his cousin, "that I have collected at 

 least thirty specimens of this creature, and that I 



