Romanes, G: Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish and Sea-Urchins

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Romanes, G: Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish and Sea-Urchins

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Excerpt from Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems

And here I may Observe that the worker in marine zoology has one great advantage over his other scientific brethren. Apart from the intrinsic beauty of most of the creatures with which he has to deal, all the accompaniments of his work are aesthetic, and removed from those more or less offensive features which are so Often necessarily incidental-tothe study of anatomy and physiology in the higher animals. When, for instance, I con trast my own work in a town laboratory on vertebrated animals with that which I am now about to describe upon the invertebrated in a laboratory set up upon the sea-beach, it is im possible not to feel that the contrast in point of enjoyment is considerable. In the latter case, a summer's work resembles the pleasure-making of a picnic prolonged for months, with the sense of feel ing all the while that no time is being profitlessly spent. Whether one is sailing about upon the sunny sea, fishing with muslin nets for the surface fauna, or steaming away far from shore to dredge for other material, or, again, carrying on Observations in the cool sea-water tanks and bell-jars of a neat4 jelly-fish, star-fish, and sea-urchins.

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