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does not fear to pit its muscles of jelly against the rush 

 and might of breaking waves. 



Even the individual comb-plates or rows of oars are 

 plainly seen, although, owing to their rapid motion, they 

 appear to the naked eye as a single band of scintillating 

 light. This and other magnified photographs were ob- 

 tained by fastening the 

 lens of a discarded bi- 

 cycle lantern in a cone 

 of paper blackened on 

 the inside with shoe- 

 blacking. With this 

 crude apparatus placed 

 in front of the lens of 

 the camera, the evanes- 

 cent beauties of these 

 most delicate creatures, 

 were preserved. 



Other equally beau- 

 tiful forms of jelly-fish 

 are balloon-shaped. 

 These are Beroe, fitly 

 named after the daugh- 

 ter of the old god Oceanus. They, like others of their 

 family, pulsate through the water, sweeping gracefully 

 along, borne on currents of their own making. 



Passing to other inhabitants of the pools, we find star- 

 fish and sea-urchins everywhere abundant. Hunched-up 

 groups of the former show where they are dining in their 

 unique way on unfortunate sea-snails or anemones, pro- 



BEROE. 



