—
-
EFFECTS or LINES
_
ON SPONGES AND zoornvrEsf
"
437
be remembered that for ages the hooks;of the l‘iners have
brought from the same banks representatives of every group;of _invertebrate animals, and that they are not always repla'ced in
the sea alive.
To the hooks of the liners, and also to their
,
"
ready courtesy, most of the museums in this and other ‘
_
"
'
countries owe much.
Some of the nest sponges in British
waters, and the beautiful Venus’s ower—baskets and
sponges abroad have been procured in this way. A constant
‘and large supply of hydroid zoophytes (‘ sea—trees ’) is almost;
gf
daily brought on shore from the deeper water. Some
'
_
largest and nest anemones—studded, it
be, on the _.
mandible of a small rorquhal, on a piece of submerged wOod;oh
at or other stones, on shells, or even on the thigh—bone cf.—an
unfortunate sailor—are similarly‘ procured, along With
corals and other coral—like structurés (Polyzoa). If thé…
'
_is accredited with the destruction of the great sea—pen (Fum—
-’
culi7'zaÿ of the western waters, what is to he said of its 1uddy
ally
the ‘ pink
’
of
shermen?
every hook for considerable portions of lines on certain grounds
bringing up its example, and this not by. any action onthepa1t
of this pretty sea—pen, but simply by the force of .:the
Ï,
the line .as it drags the hooks over the surface of thesoft
’
ground.
Several jars have been lled in a single trip with *
these from such sources, and yet no scarcity of them
_
is it hinted that
.
the _cod directly, or the haddock mduectly,
'
Will be robbed of' its food… In the same way ne
‘
dead men’s ngers
’
(Alcyonim), the slender sea—pen
Forth (Virg-ularia), a rarer and larger type new to this country,
and other forms, are captured by-the liners.
.
.
,
Before and since the days of Edward Forbes
*
been the mainstay for many rare star—shes, and th0se who,hke
Î
.
_
the genial naturalist just mentioned;æhave eageywætedmthe
dim.morning'ght—wh the ready plffh&ttu
*b11ttle
on
board Wlapplec1atetheserv1œsofthe
-
EFFECTS or LINES
_
ON SPONGES AND zoornvrEsf
"
437
be remembered that for ages the hooks;of the l‘iners have
brought from the same banks representatives of every group;of _invertebrate animals, and that they are not always repla'ced in
the sea alive.
To the hooks of the liners, and also to their
,
"
ready courtesy, most of the museums in this and other ‘
_
"
'
countries owe much.
Some of the nest sponges in British
waters, and the beautiful Venus’s ower—baskets and
sponges abroad have been procured in this way. A constant
‘and large supply of hydroid zoophytes (‘ sea—trees ’) is almost;
gf
daily brought on shore from the deeper water. Some
'
_
largest and nest anemones—studded, it
be, on the _.
mandible of a small rorquhal, on a piece of submerged wOod;oh
at or other stones, on shells, or even on the thigh—bone cf.—an
unfortunate sailor—are similarly‘ procured, along With
corals and other coral—like structurés (Polyzoa). If thé…
'
_is accredited with the destruction of the great sea—pen (Fum—
-’
culi7'zaÿ of the western waters, what is to he said of its 1uddy
ally
the ‘ pink
’
of
shermen?
every hook for considerable portions of lines on certain grounds
bringing up its example, and this not by. any action onthepa1t
of this pretty sea—pen, but simply by the force of .:the
Ï,
the line .as it drags the hooks over the surface of thesoft
’
ground.
Several jars have been lled in a single trip with *
these from such sources, and yet no scarcity of them
_
is it hinted that
.
the _cod directly, or the haddock mduectly,
'
Will be robbed of' its food… In the same way ne
‘
dead men’s ngers
’
(Alcyonim), the slender sea—pen
Forth (Virg-ularia), a rarer and larger type new to this country,
and other forms, are captured by-the liners.
.
.
,
Before and since the days of Edward Forbes
*
been the mainstay for many rare star—shes, and th0se who,hke
Î
.
_
the genial naturalist just mentioned;æhave eageywætedmthe
dim.morning'ght—wh the ready plffh&ttu
*b11ttle
on
board Wlapplec1atetheserv1œsofthe