Panguitch Progress | 1913-06-13 | Page 2 | Have Long Duration of Life

I 1 HAVE LONG DURATION OP OF LIFE galt gait water denizens attain immense age if scientific investigations investigation 11 aro are correct water particularly salt water seems to conduce to longevity there thera are gigantic mussels and oysters whose age la Is assumed to be comparable only with that of the cape verde baobab tree and the big tree of call fornia which live for years in deed thero there appears no particular reason why mussels should ever die though it Is also true that consider consid er ing the sort of life a mussel loads leads there seems no particular reason why it should ever have lived sea aner anemones an emones again delicate and sensitive though they look when wo we see bee them in the rock pools may attain great ago age sir john dalzell Da lyell a scottish naturalist captured in 1828 a sea anemone or of the tha liver colored sort so common around our shores its age was then estimated est at seven years it flourished in edinburgh until 1887 and andaas was just attaining a vigorous and sober maturity when from some unknown cause causa it died lota loh don mall abfall