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three feet, and are almost invariably near the shore 

 line." 



But to realize all that Prof. Hyatt has to say of these 

 jelly-like masses, it must be remembered that a magni- 

 fying-glass is necessary ; and further, the trouble neces- 

 sary to see the beautiful animals included within the 

 mass is nothing as compared with the delight that will 

 reward the investigator. I have seldom seen anything 

 so marvellously beautiful. A word more and I have 

 done. How, it may be asked, do these animals repro- 

 duce their kind ? Animals of this class, according to 

 Prof. Hyatt, " have two modes of reproduction, one by 

 buds, and the other by eggs. The former occurs in 

 two ways; by statoblasts, either fixed or free, and by 

 regular buds, which grow out from the side of each 

 polypide. The first are the founders of new colonies. 

 The last merely increase the number of individuals in 

 each established community." 



Let ns follow up briefly the history of these wonder- 

 ful statoblasts, or eggs, as most people would call them, 

 although they are not such. On the contrary, they 

 " bud from the funiculus, a cord - like prolongation of 

 the outer membranes of the stomach. . . . They arise 

 within beadlike swellings of the funiculus, and, en- 

 larging slowly, push out to the surface of the cord, 

 and upwards towards the stomach, until finally they 

 hang upon the exterior, arranged alternately on either 

 side, the youngest being at the lower end." 



What do these statoblasts look like ? Truly, they are 

 not readily described. An oval, slightly double con- 

 vexed disk, of a yellow -brown color, and about one 



