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The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects (1854)

Gould, Augustus A. (Augustus Addison), 1805-1866, Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI, Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI · Boston : Phillips, Sampson, and Company · leaf 790

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can raise itself in the water. Under this, we usually see lodged the spawn in great abundance; every pea adhering to the next by a very fine filament, which is scarcely perceivable. Every lobster is an her- maphrodite, and is supposed to be self-impregnated. The ovary, or place where the spawn is… … canals, that open on each side at the jointures of the shell, at the belly; ana through these passages the peas descend to be excluded, and placed, under the tail, where the animal preserves them from danger for some time, until © they come to maturity. They are then dropped in the sand, where they…

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