So The Under-Water World 



and crabs, almost equal in bulk the rest 

 of the animal. 



The common lobster, which may attain 

 a weight of 16 lb., breeds between July 

 and October, and the eggs usually about 

 five thousand in number are carried by 

 the female attached to her abdomen. 

 The young on hatching, unlike its fresh- 

 water relations the crayfish, bear no 

 resemblance to the parent form and lead 

 a free, independent existence. The 

 growth of the animal is very slow, from 

 ten to twelve years being required for 

 a lobster to attain to a length of a foot, 

 and during this period it will have passed 

 through at least twenty-five moults. 



Lobsters are frequently sent to the 

 Zoo aquarium packed in damp seaweed. 

 Now if such animals immediately after 

 a long journey were put direct into 

 the tanks they would drown, their 

 enfeebled bodies having become filled 

 with air en route. To bring them round 



