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Section XL 



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Instructions f 07' Collecting and Preserving Animah. 

 As water is the element in wliicli the greater number of 

 the classes of animals exist, and as the sea is the scene of 

 such existence and the field of research which will be 

 most commonly presented to those for whom the following 



instructions for collecting and preserving animals have 



been drawn up, they will commence with the marine 

 species and the lowest forms of animal life* ^ 



Alg^i, Sponges, Corallines, and Corals. 



The 



the vegetable and 



animal kingdoms is so obscurely marked in the lowly 

 organized marine species, and the modes of collecting and 



preserving these are so similar, that the kindred group 



above-named are associated together as the subjects of 



the following remarks. 



Alg(B^ commonly called sea-weeds, may be divided, for 



the convenience of the collector, into three kinds, according 

 to their colour : 



1. Olive-coloured {Fuci) ; generally of large size and 

 leathery texture, rarely gelatinous ; usually laminate or 

 leafy 5 rarely filamentous or thready. 



