Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 460
graceful motion, the worm allows the fringesof the filaments to gather a portion of mudfrom the sea-bottom, when, fingering andmolding it, the fringes carry it down thelength of the filament to the bottom of the … A CLAM PLACED IN A GLASS OF SEA-WATER. Currents of water being watched through a magnifying-glass. builders, may be found on rocks or shells intubes of a parchment-like color built of sandand mud. From the end of the tube the wormextends a plumy crest of feather-like forms,which are the…
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