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and broad. And just as the swimming medusa 

 gladdens me in the one, so a little personal trait 

 of the author does in the other. It is in the choice 

 of the Latin names. A little crown is woven 

 that unites aesthetics and science. I find splendid 

 names, invented by the Professor, on all sides. 

 But I notice that his heart was in these things. 

 He has discovered new species of medusae, and 

 must christen them. As he turns over his Latin 

 or Greek lexicon a ray of humanity steals into the 

 most severe scientific soul at such moments. I 

 read that a disco-medusa is called the Nausicaa 

 phcBaciim : ** I observed the Nausicaa pliceacum 

 in April, 1877, at Corfu, on the shore of Phaeaca, 

 in the heart of the Nausicaa." A cyaneid is given 

 the fine name of the Melusina forniosa. It is 

 noted, with great regret, that '^ so fine and classic 

 a name for a medusa" as Oceania must be struck 

 out on scientific grounds. Amongst descriptions 

 of species in a severe scientific tongue that 

 unnerves the timid reader, amongst gonods, styles, 

 perradial bundles of tentacles, and ocellar bulbs, 

 we find, apropos of the medusa, Lizzia ElisahethcB : 

 ^'As Forbes dedicated the pretty genus Lizzia 

 hlonclina to a ' blond Elizabeth,' I do the same, 

 and wish to honour, not only St. Elizabeth of 

 Thuringia, but also the ^ blond Elizabeth' of 

 Immermann and my own dear daughter Eliza- 

 beth." 



Then, in the middle of the large volume, we 

 find the following passage on page 189. A medusa 

 is <?iven the name of Mitrocoma Annce, The 



