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DIVERSIONS OF A NATURALIST




BY THE SAME AUTHOR


  SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR

  SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR. SECOND SERIES

  FROM AN EASY CHAIR

  EXTINCT ANIMALS

  THE KINGDOM OF MAN




[Illustration: A CORNER IN A MARINE AQUARIUM, PAINTED BY PHILIP HENRY
GOSSE, F.R.S.

The scene shews the great white Sea Anemone of Weymouth. In front are
two richly coloured sea-worms (Serpula) issuing from their calcareous
tubes, attached to a dead scallop's shell. The green sea-grass
(Zostera) and a translucent pink sea-weed, left and right, complete the
picture]




                      DIVERSIONS OF A NATURALIST

                                  BY

                           SIR RAY LANKESTER

                            K.C.B., F.R.S.

             WITH A FRONTISPIECE IN COLOUR AND FORTY-THR