1 62^ HIDDEN BEAUTIES OF NATURE 



with visitors in pursuit of knowledge far more satisfy- 

 ing than anything provided at the low-class music- 

 halls, now so much frequented. 



Fig. 48. Madrepores. 

 (South Kensington Museum.) 



Before dismissing the coral polyps, these hidden 

 beauties of Nature, it would be well to survey a single 



