THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



WHARF-TILE FAUNA IN A 



MUSEUM GBOUF 

 The oceanic waters that lap our 

 shores conceal beneath their tidal mar- 

 gin a wealth of animal and plant life 

 that is surprisingly unfamiliar to those 

 who are not actunllv students of marine 



biology. As terrestrial animals our- 

 selves we live and move in the midst of 

 a world of air-breathing creatures with 

 which most of us have become tolerably 

 familiar. Beasts, birds, reptiles and 

 insects have for us an economic or 

 esthetic bearing that gives them a 





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iiii. \ i.NKYAKu Haven Wharf Pile Group. 

 The upper background is made up of enlarged photographic transparencies show- 

 ing the actual locality. Below the water line, the animals and plants of the wharf 

 piles are represented largely by models. The submarine background effect is produced 

 by five successive sheets of plate-glass through which daylight filters from a window 

 behind. 



