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between the five valves of a shell that protects 

 the main body of the barnacle, six pairs of 

 feather-like limbs can be protruded, which 

 waft microscopic organisms and particles into 

 the mouth. So much for the ordinary ship- 



B 



FIG. 10. 



A. THE FLOATING BARNACLE, with a 

 self-made Buoy on the Stalk between 

 it and a piece of Floating Seaweed. 



B. A COMMON BARNACLE. 



barnacle, hundreds of which may sometimes 

 be found attached to a log which is tossed up 

 on the beach by a storm after having drifted, 

 it may be, across the Atlantic. 



The particular kind of barnacle which we 



