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much of insoluble matter barnacles will eliminate from 

 the water is shown by the rapidity with which they 

 will render turbid sea water clear and transparent. The 

 most common species of these " necked barnacles " bears 

 the name of " Lepas anatifera" "the duck -bearing Lepas" 

 It was so entitled by Linnaeus, in recognition of its having 

 been connected with the fable, which, of course, met with 

 no credit from him. 



FfG. 41. PEDUNCULATED BARNACLES. {Lepas anatifera.} 



Fig. 42, on next page, represents the figure-head of a 

 ship, partly covered with barnacles, which was picked up 

 about thirty miles off Lowestoft on the 22nd of October, 

 1857. It was described in the Illustrated London News, 

 and the proprietors of that paper have kindly given me a 

 copy of the block from which its portrait was printed. 



Others of the barnacles affix themselves to the bottoms 

 of ships, or parasitically upon whales and sharks, and 

 those of the latter kind often burrow deeply into the skin of 



