The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 184
great deal oftime in studying the crabs, tells about a specimenof Maia verrucosa which he kept. He removedall the vegetation from its back, then put it in adish with dead mens fingers (a polyp). Soonthe crab began to pull off the tips of the polypbranches with its claws. After letting them liesome… … THE HERMIT-CRAB IN THE SHELL OF A SEA-SNAIL. A Swedish naturalist, Dr. Aurivillius, had apet crab that supported a garden of bright sea-mosses. He put it among some sponges, when itremoved with great labor all the mosses from its 374 STRANGE FISH AND REPTILES back, replacing them with bits of…
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