ANIMAL 
OF THE 
NAUTILUS POMPILIUS. 
The inhabiting animal of the Nautilus Pompi- 
lius or Great Pearly Nautilus, hitherto but very ob¬ 
scurely known to naturalists, has at length been 
described and figured with sufficient accuracy by 
the ingenious Mons. Denys Montfort. It appears 
that the animal is in some degree allied to the 
genus Sepia, but is destitute of long arms or claspers, 
instead of which it is furnished with several rows of 
short, broad, subdivided or palmatcd tentacula, 
spreading in a radiated direction round the mouth 
or beak : it is also provided with a concave ex¬ 
pansile hood or process, which it is supposed oc¬ 
casionally to extend by way of a sail. 
Of the present plates the first represents it seated 
in its shell; the second as taken out of the shell, 
in order to exhibit the complete form of the body. 
