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half-shelled mollusca, half-jointed Crustacea. They are more 

 or less fixed by a pedicle, but are sensible of light, as it 

 is easy to convince oneself. You will find in all the des- 

 criptions of these animals that they have an eye, but 

 buried in the substance of the body, and quite covered 

 by the thick, horny, opaque covering. If this were true, 

 there would be no use in the little organ, but I found, in 

 dissection, that exactly over the eye is a small clear, 

 translucent, diamond-shaped spot in the integument, through 

 which the little black eyespot can be seen, and through 

 which the light penetrates to it. Other anatomists must 

 have passed it over as only an accidental spot in the 

 integument. 



An older naturalist than Ray or Dcrham traced up 

 organization to the great originator. "That His name is 

 great, His wondrous works declare." " Lord, how 

 manifold are thy works ! In wisdom thou hast made them 

 all. The earth is full of thy riches. So is the great and 

 wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both 

 small and great beasts. There go the ships (there go the 

 nautili) ; there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made 

 to play therein. These wait all upon thee, that thou 

 mayest give them their meat in due season." I prefer my 

 friend Mr. Broad's conjectural reading of nautili for ships. 

 Ships are not the work of God, nor can they be said to 

 be fed by or to wait upon God, whilst nautili, or little 

 ship-formed molluscs, supposed to have given the first idea 

 of ships, agree with the context ; and the antithesis 

 between the huge whale or leviathan and the diminutive 

 animate skiff is striking. The reading has much struck 

 some good judges. Professor Owen is delighted with it. 



Ours is an age when old-established opinions receive 



