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meet underneath her body, or else she glues the 

 eggs on to the swimming appendages underneath 

 the tail. The Anaspides deposits about twenty or 

 thirty rather large purplish eggs, immediately after 

 fertilization, among the water weeds or under 

 stones, where they undergo development, hatch- 

 ing out into young which possess at the outset all 

 the essential features of the parent's organization. 



Besides the species which occurs on the top of 

 Mount Wellington and on certain other mountain 

 tops in Tasmania, there is a distinct kind which 

 I found in the Great Lake of Tasmania, and another 

 has been found in a stream not far from Melbourne ; 

 but in other parts of the world no trace of the 

 animal's survival has been discovered. 



Goethe somewhere remarks that the most in- 

 significant natural object is, as it were, a window 

 through which we can look into infinity. And 

 certainly when I first saw the Mountain Shrimp 

 walking quietly about in its crystal-clear habita- 

 tions, as if nothing of any great consequence had 

 happened since its ancestors walked in a sea 

 peopled with strange reptiles, by a shore on which 

 none but cold-blooded creatures plashed among 

 the rank forests of fern-like trees, before ever bird 

 flew or youngling was suckled with milk, time for 

 me was annihilated and the imposing kingdom of 

 man shrunk indeed to a little measure. 



