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the other series, so that it shall be first a pipe of A, then a pipe 
of B, and so on in regular order for both series. Suppose again 
that the A pipes contain green pigment, and the B pipes contain 
yellow. We will further imagine that each pipe series has a 
series of muscles which can act upon them. Now laid over the 
mouths of all these pigment tubes let us suppose a translucent 
film. Our perforated block tin and its translucent spread, with 
the mouths of the color tubes opening between them, shall repre- 
sent the rete mucosum, or colored layer of the skin. Suppose 
now the appropriate muscles squeeze the lower ends of the A 
series of pigment tubes, the pigment at once comes up against the 
almost transparent skin, the color of which is now blue. Let the 
muscles relax and the pigment descends into the tubes again. 
Let the same process occur with the B series of tubes, and the 
result will be that the skin shows a yellow color. Not waiting 
for the yellow pigment to return into the tubes, let the A series 
be again squeezed, and up comes the blue pigment against the 
translucent spread. Now everybody knows that a green color is 
easily made by a mixture of yellow and blue. Suppose the little 
spots where the blue touches under the translucent film to be so 
small as to be called molecules,-and suppose the same of the spots 
where the yellow pigment touches, and you have all the condi- 
tions necessary for begetting green. It is also easily imagined 
how by regulating the amount of muscular pressure the propor- 
tions of the separate pigments is regulated, and so the most deli- 
cate tints are produced. 
At the dining table of a hotel in Florida a lady appeared with 
her four pet Anoles. They were fastened to her head-gear by 
silken threads, and ran over her neck and head, or nestled in the 
tresses of her hair, as they saw fit. In this particular we think 
the lady did violence to the rights of others. But duly regarding 
the proprieties of time and place, the lady did well in her delight 
with her “ little chameleons.” ` As a pet, the Anolis principalis 
is everything that is commendable: clean, inoffensive, pretty, 
and wonderfully entertaining; provoking harmless mirth, and 
stirring up in the thinker the profoundest depths of his philos- 
ophy. 
