Show QUEER SEA MOUSE remarkable in the lower branches of organic life A few days ago evnen they bought me a fine specimen about four inches long of that strange creature the rea mouse dredged from the sandy bottom of loch ryan I 1 I 1 began to late darkly upon the significance of the generic name aphrodita bestowed upon this 13 lowly invertebrate by laro lam arack for sit jt Is no mouse but a worm belonging to the class animals which being still in a primitive primitiv stage of development enoy 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 eight no living creature la Is less suggestive of the goddess of love its As general outline eink being that of a 94 g gantic wood louse and its structure hut but an oblong mass of integument and viscera vi yet on second thought it appears not inappropriately termed born of the sea foam am ephros and if beauty of form farm be denied to it compensation is made by an extraordinary loveli loveliness nORS of color the breathing appa apparatus ratu s of external bran chiae ia like silky bric ties arranged all along the sides of 1 the animal shine with ith a luster as delicate as and more brilliant than a ow pigeons neck pall mail gazette |