Identifier: youngfolkslibrar11aldr (
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Young folks libraryYear:
1902 (
1900s)Authors:
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907Subjects:
Children's literaturePublisher:
Boston, CT : Hall and LockeContributing Library:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:, and green seaweeds, stony corallines, and acorn-barnacles lining the floor, sea-anemones clinging to thesides, sponges tiny and many-colored hiding under theledges, and limpets and mussels wedged in the cracks.These can be easily seen with the naked eye, but theyare not the most numerous inhabitants; for these 868 Wonders of Earth, Sea, and Sky we must searcli with a magnifying glass, which will re-veal to us wonderful fairy-forms, delicate crystal vaseswith tiny creatures in them whose transparent lashesmake whirlpools in the water, living crystal bells sotiny that whole branches of them look only like a fringeof hair, jelly globes rising and falling in the water,patches of Hving jelly chnging to the rocky sides of thepool, and a hundred other forms, some so minute thatyou must examine the fine sand in which they lie undera powerful microscope before you can even guess thatthey are there. So it has proved a rich hunting-ground, wheresummer and winter, spring and autumn, I find someText Appearing After Image:1, Ulva Linza. Fig. 1. Group of Seaweeds.(Natural size.)2, Sphacelaria Ulicina. 3, Polysiphonia4, Corallina officinalis. urceolata. form to put under my magic glass. There I canwatch it for weeks growing and multiplying undermy care ; moved only from the aquarium, where Ikeep it supplied with healthy sea-water, to the tiny Inhabitants of My Pool 369 transparent trough in whicli I place it for a fewhours to see the changes it has undergone. I couldtell you endless tales of transformations in these tinylives, but I want to-day to show you a few of myfriends, most of which I brought yesterday fresh fromthe pool, and have prepared for you to examine. Let us begin with seaweeds. I have said that thereare three leading colors in my pool — green, olive, andred — and these tints markroughly three kinds of weed,though they occur in an end-less variety of shapes. Here isa piece of the beautiful palegreen seaweed, called the Laveror Sea-Lettuce, Ulva Lima (1,Fig. 1),^ which grows in longribbNote About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.