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Diversions of a Naturalist

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Illustration from Diversions of a Naturalist

A CORNER IN A MARINE AQUARIUM, PAINTED BY PHILIP HENRY GOSSE, F.R.S.

The scene shews the great white Sea Anemone of Weymouth. In front are two richly coloured sea-worms (Serpula) issuing from their calcareous tubes, attached to a dead scallop's shell. The green sea-grass (Zostera) and a translucent pink sea-weed, left and right, complete the picture

DIVERSIONS OF A NATURALIST

BY

Sir RAY LANKESTER

K.C.B., F.R.S.

WITH A FRONTISPIECE IN COLOUR AND FORTY-THREE OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS

METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON

First Published in 1915

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