OCR Text |
Show Slow Also in Death. Snails iiro slow even when it comes to dying. One well-knpwn naturalist who had mounted n shell upon a card, was surprUed to And, four years later, that the warm water employed lu Boa..Ing tho shell off tr- mount had revived tho Inmutc, whlcl he had long slnco supposed to be dried am. dend. Severn! specimens hi another collection collec-tion were revived In a similar manner after they had lain In a drawer for sonio 15 years. These had not been glued to a card, but had been left lylug loose, nml, though frequently handled, had shown no signs of life. They wero thrown Into tepid water with tho cleaning out tho shells, b surprise of the own er the ere found creeping about th -vhen he returned to complete t.tsk |