MORE AS TO THE BARNACLE AND GOOSE 133 



Fig. 15. — The Goose 

 and the Barnacle. 



A, Drawing of a Ship's 



Barnacle attached 

 to a piece of timber 

 by its " peduncle" 

 or stalk, which re- 

 presents the neck of 

 a goose, if we regard 

 the shell - covered 

 region as the goose's 

 body. From a 

 sketch by M. Fred- 

 eric Houssay pub- 

 lished in the ' ' Revue 

 Archieologique," 

 January 1895. 



B, Copy of a drawing on 



an ancient Myken- 

 rean pot found in 

 Crete, and figured 

 by M. Perrot in his 

 "Ossuaire de Crete " 

 vol. vi. p. 936. It 

 is a fantastic blend 

 of the goose and the 

 barnacle. The bar- 

 nacle's stalk is given 



a beak and an eye ; the body of the bird corresponds to the shells of the 

 barnacle both in shape and marking. There are no wings or leg>, but 

 the curious single limb which I have marked pe is obviously the same 

 thing as that marked pe in figure C, which represents the barnacle when 

 cut open so as to show the structures within the shell, pe is the rod-like 

 body at the end of which the seminal duct opens. It is seen in the 

 drawing of the expanded barnacle (Fig. 10), lying between the two 

 groups of six forked and jointed legs or "cirri." 



C, A correct modern drawing of a ship's barnacle, with the shells of one side 



removed so as to show the six double legs of one side, the seminal rod 

 (pe), and the internal organs. This is what Sir Robert Moray and his 

 mediaeval predecessors saw on opening the barnacle's shell and described 

 as " a young bird complete in every detail." 



