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reminded by the concluding sentence of the preceding face- 
tious quotation, that, in order to explain the allusion made by our late - 
lamented friend to the ‘terminating eye and spinous eyelid’ of the Star- 
fish, it will be necessary to say a few words concerning the senses of 
ese extraordinarily gifted creatures. That they do perceive what is- 
going on in the world around them, at least in so far as their own busi- 
ness is concerned, there cannot exist a doubt; nay, that their perceptions are 
acute and rapid, any one who has witnessed’ the facility with which they 
find and devour a bait, or a morsel of food, will readily allow ; but how 
situated at the extremity of each ray, certain bright red spots, very con- 
sensation. The modus operandi is thus described by Mr. Kincely Bridg- 
man, of Norwich. The apparatus is simple, and consists principally of 
be made or broken in an instant by a movement of the right foot of the 
The advantage of this arrangement 1s, that it allows oo in- 
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ks, or the tongue, which would in- 
terfere with the quiet of the patient. A hole drilled in the end of the. 
left handle of the forceps, and the end of. the wire tapered to fit rather 
tightly allo 
* Forbes’s British Star-fishes. 
