Show QUEER LITTLE SEA MOUSE remarkable in the lower branches of organic life A few days ago anen they brought me a fine specimen about four inches long of that strange creature the sea mouse dredged filin the sandy hot torn of loch ryan I 1 began to lato darkly upon the significance ot the generic name aphrodita bestowed this lowly invertebrate by lam track for it 1 no mouse but a worm belonging to the class animals which being still in a primitive stage of development develop men enjoy the enviable privilege of being able to replace any organ even a head of which they may be bereft by accident or assault at first sight no living creature I 1 loss suggestive of the goddess of love its general outline belag that of a gl gantic wood louse and ltd structure but an oblong mass of integument and viscera yet on second thought it appears not inappropriately termed born of the sea foam am ephros and if beauty of form be denied to it compensation Is made by an extraordinary loveliness of color the breathing apparatus consisting of external like silky bris ties arranged all along the sides of the animal shine with a luster as dell aate as and more brilliant than a pigeon s ack pall mall gazette |