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INJURIOUS MARINE ANIMAL. 
guese Man-of-War that has occasioned the lesion ; also to infer 
contact with Physalia as accounting for an injury of doubtful 
origin on detecting those microsopic objects on the skin, if other 
circumstances accord with such an explanation. 
Mr. Moar was therefore asked to permit the removal of 
portions of the injured skin, though there was little hope of 
success attending its examination since a few days had elapsed 
since the accident, the injured part had been anointed with 
turpentine and also with ammonia besides having been washed, 
n had also been brought into contact with his shirt sleeve, 
owever after careful examination with an objective of high 
a par ticle of epidermis of the characteristic extremely fine thread 
weight dur/°°^'^ Physalia, and thus to add to my opinion the 
Tst it t Tif I may conclude 
Sne recold f • T P^bability, those from time to 
al not bv , ^ Portuguese Man-of-War, 
the lelli “electric eel,” or ”.sea monster,” ani 
bathing in front of Shorndiffe in about 
felfc a sharp i^ain on hi^ viho f when one 
- it. He sLuted out l" 
of jelly fish, blue in colour .\s Pp i ® 
thin tail nearly a yard long Jp 1 bll d^^‘® " 
down across the breast. The body bl^ off J 
he flung It away. Both gentle, t,pp V ^ i 
and here the tail ivas reived. It aio | 
the place where the body had stuck of blue jelly; 
2Jm. by Ijiia. This came up into a'T i“' 
place touched by the tail also rose . i , every 
They at once hastily put on some f 1 ^ I 
they were staying, where the blue ^o where 
minutes for about an hour For v, ^PPhed every few 
• J^oi nearly two hours the person 
