CHAPTER III. 



LIVE ANIMALS SENT BY POST— THE MORTE STONE—" WANTED, A TIN CANIS- 

 TER !"— THE BORING MOLLUSCS, THOLAS, TEREDO, AND SAXICAVA— HOW IS 

 THE BORING EFFECTED? — APPLICATION OF EMBRYOLOGY TO PRACTICAL 

 PURPOSES— RESPIRATION OF THE PHOLAS— DREDGING— THE SEA A PAS- 

 SION—THE DEAD CEPHALOPOD AND ITS COLOUR-SPECS— NEED OF A DOCTRINE 

 —MORMON PREACHER — LOGIC OF ZOOLOGISTS— CLEOPATRA'S PEARL- 

 PRODUCE OF A GALE— THE EOLIS : ITS STRUCTURE ; HOW DOES IT BREATHE ? 

 REASONS FOR REMOVING THE EOLIS FROM THE NUDIBRANCHIATES — 

 WATER MINGLING WITH THE BLOOD. 



Do you ever send live animals through the Post-office ? The 

 question may startle, perhaps, but the thing is often done. 

 Only three days ago a brother naturalist sent me a couple 

 of dozen Sea Anemones, stowed among weed in a tin can- 

 ister, which formerly contained a powder unblushingiy sold 

 behind a Christian counter as veritable coiSee. The process 

 is simple enough, when tin canisters are at hand, little as the 

 excellent Rowland Hill contemplated such an adaptation of 

 his postal reform to the exigencies of naturalists ; but the 

 process is less simple when you are temporarily abiding in a 

 place so utterly provincial that little in the nature of tin 

 boxes is to he had for money, and nothing at all for love. 

 Such a place is Tenby, 



But, first, let me tell you what made me desiderativc of tin 

 boxes, and indignant with Tenby for its want of resources. 



