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linen, which was worked with such fondness for the 

 first-born, and has become in turns the costume of 

 successive pledges, as they appeared on this scene 

 of life, with a constant diminuendo of interest, in 

 all but parental eyes. Such, in a few words, is 

 the budding of Annelids. The separation finally 

 takes place, and then we perceive the children, 

 and grandchildren, are not quite the same as 

 their ancestor. The fact has not been observed 

 at all hitherto in the Tubicolous worms, yet two 

 of my Terebellae gave me a sight of it. The first 

 died before the separation took place. The second, 

 after a day or two's captivity, separated itself from 

 its appendix of a baby, and seemed all the livelier 

 for the loss of a juvenile, which had been literally 

 in the condition of " hanging to its mother's 

 tail." l 



We have already quoted from Mr. G. H. Lewes, 

 and must do so again on the subject of the 

 blood of worms. "That some animals have red 

 blood, and others blood not red, you know per- 

 fectly well ; but that the worms have blood of 

 various colours is probably news to you. Thus 

 the Sea Mouse has colourless blood ; the Polynoc 

 pale yellow; the Sabella olive green ; and one 

 species of Sabella dark red. But this difference 



1 Lewes, " Seaside Studies," p. 65. 



