Show QUEER LITTLE S SEA EA MOU MOUSE ae remarkable in the lower 13 branches ranches of organic life A few days ago aten they brought me a fine specimen about four inches long of that strange creature the sea mouse dredged aloin the sandy bottom of loch ryan I 1 began to late darkly upon the significance of the generic name aphrodita bestowed upon this lowly invertebrate by lam arack for it Is no mouse but a worm belonging to the clars anne llda lida animals which beier egtill in a primitive stage of development enjoy the enviable privilege of being able to replace any organ organo even a head of which they may bo be bereft by accident or assault at first sight no living creature Is less suggestive of the goddess of love its general outline being that of a gigantic wood louse and ita its structure but an oblong mass of integument and vi viscera viB cere yet on second thought though tp it appears appear 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 branch lae like silky bristles arranged all along the sides of the animal shine with a luster as delicate as and ani more brilliant than a pigeons neck pall mall gazette |