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in this matter. He says he has received a number of young specimens of this Crab from the 

 Mediterranean, and finds that in every case they have been overgrown by a sponge, which even 

 hides the last two pairs of legs and presses them against its back, rendering them immovable. The 

 truth is, of course, that the Crab has adapted its legs to take this uncomfortable-looking position 

 in order that it may securely hold its sponge-messmate as a disguise, and under cover of this 

 inoffensive mantle approach its prey Avithout arousing fear or suspicion. 



Some of the foreign relatives of this marine Gnome hold bivalve shells and leaves over their backs 

 in the same manner and with the same object in view. 



HORNED, FRILLED AND ARMOURED DINOSAURS 



BY SIR HARRY JOHKSTOX, G.C.M.Q.;,! „^Y. 



Very marvellous amongst the most amazing group of reptiles ever evolved in past ages (the 

 Dinosaurs) was the Triceratops genus, which came into existence in Western North America in the 

 last period of the Secondary Epoch, at a time when many groups of reptiles were " over-doing 

 it," becoming, that is to say, so fantastic, so huge, or so fettered in their movements by 

 extravagant developments of armour, length of tail, or head-covering, that they must at 

 last have found it very difficult to cope with active enemies or to reproduce their species 

 with sufficient rapidity to keep pace with the growth of mammalian rivals, whose later 

 development of bulk and limb they were anticipating. 



Pholo i!/] 



//. Johnslon, 0.0. MM. 



THE TRICERATOPS. 



This is a remarkable restoration of tKe outward form of Triceratops, a vegetarian Dinosaur which existed at the close of 

 the Secondary Epoch in the United States. Herr Pallenbers, the designer of this group at Stellingen, has shown us a male, 

 female and young one. 



