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attached to submarine objects and to each other. The 
animals are very active, protruding and retracting the 
anterior portion of their bodies, while their antennm 
are in continual motion, lashing about in search of some 
object which might serve for food. It is very amusing 
to watch a colony of these animals, with their comical 
gestures in their disputes with each other, and their 
awkward celerity in regaining their respective tubes 
after having left them on temporary excursions. I have 
in no instance met with an individual transporting a 
free tube, as is said by Mr. Say to be the case with 
C. tubular is .” 
