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Chapter with the more express purpose of demonstrating the potentialities of the 
camera for rendering marine zoological subjects in a state of active locomotion in 
their native element. In each instance the camera has been arranged vertically, in 
conjunction with the apparatus figured in Plate XX VII. of the author’s book on the 
“Great Barrier Reef,” and described at length in that volume. Bright sunshine falling 
uninterruptedly upon the subjects and an instantaneous shutter were necessarily indis- 
pensable accessories. In the first picture we have a group of eight young turtles, 
Chelone mydas, collected at the Lacepede Islands just as they had tumbled out of their 
ege-shells on an adjacent sand bank, and were liberated for their first swim in a 
large basin of sea-water. A few sprays of sargassum weed were added to the water 
with the double intent of garnishing the picture, and of in some measure restraining 
the almost too exuberant gyrations of the infant Chelonians. A few of the more 
characteristic attitudes of the limbs during consecutive phases of natation is well 
exemplified in this illustration. 
The picture opposite to the turtles, Plate XLII, portrays a score of a remarkably 
beautiful jelly fish collected among the reef-pools in King’s Sound, which were 
in a like manner photographed as they swam freely in a basin of sea-water. These 
jelly-fish are represented to a scale of about one-third of their natural size, and in 
life were variously tinted with soft shades of olive and bottle-green, scarcely two 
specimens being precisely alike. While referable to the group of the Discomeduse, 
and among these to the sub-order of the Rhizostome, it has not been found pos- 
sible as yet to identify them with any previously described species, and they may 
possibly prove to be new to science. A marked peculiarity in their habits was their 
tendency to float with their mouths and tentacles uppermost and to lie in that 
position in the reef shallows, presenting under those conditions’ a considerable re- 
semblance to certain of the branching-armed sea anemones, such as Phymanthus or 
Heterodactyla. 
Combining, as is befitting, the utile cum dulci, we might suggest that charming 
designs for an original dinner-service might be evolved from the foregoing and 
cognate zoological subjects. Could, for instance, a pattern be more appropriate than 
Plate XLI, for the serving up of Calapash and Calipee at my Lord Mayor's banquet ? 
The jelly-fish, again, would pass muster with the arrival of the glacées. Should, in 
fact, any enterprising firm be smitten with the “notion,” we have in our mind ideas 
galore wherewith to decorate and adorn the Minton or other delf for the most 
gargantuan feast. 
