THE LOBSTER. 



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able to find his loud-smelling food ; yet he has no nose. 

 Some people imagine that he carries his nose in his long 

 feelers (Fig. 109). The eyes, as you have seen, are away 

 in front, at the ends of the first pair of joints, or ap- 

 pendages (Fig. 116) — the eye-stalks. The eye is kidney- 

 shaped ; instead of having one window or pupil, as your 

 eye has, through which the light enters, the whole front 

 is divided into squares like old-fashioned window-panes 

 (Fig. 125). Each square is really a separate eye, and 



Fig. 126. 

 Windows. 



Outer Cover, or 

 Cornea, of Eye. 



Eod. 



Fig. 125. 



— Eye. 



Eye-stalk. 



The Lobster"^ Eye, showing how 

 the Nerve is joined to the Win- 

 hows IN FRONT BY THE RODS AND 



Cones. 



this is what is called a compound eye. The lobster's 

 eyesight must be very good, for, besides having all those 

 eyes, the eye-stalks are jointed so that he can turn them 

 in different directions. The nerve which goes to the eye 



