114 GLAUCUS ; OR, 



of lilac and green, and stuck over (cunning fellows !) 

 with strips of dead sea-weed to serve as improvised 

 parasols ? One cannot" say that in him we have the 

 •first type of the human skull ; for the resemblance, 

 quaint as it is, is only sensuous and accidental, (in 

 the logical use of that term,) and not homological, i. e. 

 a lower manifestation of the same idea. Yet how is 

 one tempted to say, that this was Nature's first and 

 lowest attempt at that use of hollow globes of mineral 

 for protecting soft fleshy parts, which she afterwards 

 developed to such perfection in the skulls of verte- 

 brate animals ! But even that conceit, pretty as it 

 sounds, will not hold good ; for though Eadiates 

 similar to these were among the earliest tenants of 

 the abyss, yet as early as their time, perhaps even 

 before them, had been conceived and actualized, in 

 the sharks, and in Mr. Hugh Miller's pets the old 

 red sandstone fishes, that very true vertebrate skull 

 and brain, of which this is a mere mockery.* Here 

 the whole animal, with his extraordinary feeding mill, 



* See Professor Sedgwick's last edition of tlie Discoui'ses on the 

 Studies of Cambridge. 



