The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-12-06 00:00:00

JZLLY-FISH.

The Rev. 1.0. Wood delivered • lecture in connectioa
with the Liam* Societe on Monday ermine last. at Or
Royal Huai, oe Jelly-flah.—Tbe lecturer Wel Preceded be
Dr. WIC who state I ths subjects ot mural lectures to
be given, tied thanked the audience for their patrosage
and presence.
Mr. Wood was bathed by a lip black SIMMS, on
'bleb be did ale adailreb'e " Wood seacilltags," as •
gentleman is the aufleno. remarked. He staled that he
hoped the subj. et of jelly .114 would be found more
lc tereeting before the eves»g was over this might be
thought at first denim, sad se should eadeevonr se far
as possible not to see purely releatine terms but Realist
oars converim the game idea, for be did sot with to
Impress them with it* idea of hi. tawnier bet to !stared
with the subject of tiro lecture First of all, the term jelly
debut Iboagh popular, ass jar Se fellertteS as milled
orate end le Moililleh for they are net fiat at all;
aid them animals are far loiter down Is Me scale of
oreetion. A very »makable discovery had Nee made
last you with* upon all our preview, Mess on the
and ear knowledge reepectieg them a eared
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lardy small, so that It is impassible la the passel retool
kaewledge to fix upon say definite system; but he womb!
divide theta tato d bell-bearers, peddlith_tre_n
gell.bearers, and Boat-bearers, and Per are
under me tale—bydroata, at water minute, re
—a;
maned to be ounpued almost entirely of water, with a
very small amour of animal material If on. of them
weed ammo of jelly were put on • beard in Me sun to
dry, it would alt vanish »our a few d 1...: marl, the
entire mass of the reran was water, yet if
broken, water would sot rue out; they contained
the largest poribis amount if water with the Iran
possible amount
stories:t »ime' subtleties When in their
demen prover t Were of trent* besety, and he
sketched DOM Of mon the beard. »mortise their
Maness Were se wooderfel as if an Orrick laid egp 0416 of
which produeed • ealf, which split dose, sad budded out
Datil it wee surreneded by err», oce of Mich becomes •
.ow and produces mere calves, till It produced • oreeedile,
and then want back to the ostrich again. Hering draws
the form, of the mediae, te wee Sot sure that the medusa
I. note form if seer treats» still. Tarty are more M be
dreaded m foes Era woe» °matures higher in the scale of
creation, sad can rapture prey almost infinitely stamp(
than themselves, harm • Large number of tentacles erne
not Pieter than • spideie web, yet there Is no maw
terrible *mural of prehearee than them Maylookier
things He wee owe ewierniag far from Mere whea he
felt • timber In his loos than is his arms, and, lifting
them mw two or three threads hirable Dem them; Wow
diatellihe made for share, tato pain wee yapgreat, and
whoa got as ahem he fell mere than mom feedsg is if
shot through with • ballet Tbe *ads of as ts ere
In the Maher degree, sod he wee very liable to
Cilerti:rs .aked by Me.; he once was In the great bath at
" Westward Es I" when le felt Me familiar tlsgling sad
ono of those twateelles Maar bite, though it had ham
broke* from the ameacre. The other Male woe also
described, for issemoi the eallipys, aa which sin pad
esevortisig the emertioa that every IMMO
16666- MS its phototype In oath» Tho=laadt,
I. well holm and in warmer laff are seen
liailatac Waal& far below; these are tree j•Eyealla,
bat as our lout IS. molt »Mame le a little
mature even lower than the jellyfish, the weerineri,
which moved by twists.lts hit In ea odd way like that
or the pig. Ructectint it. light we ham nothing, eves
the etweitamooe is Aust. Of the gall.beerers be deatribed
the Nada, which Bort on Wit ma like • raft with a all
to it Sour of theta came cm store in • race where a
lady MN @wring. and the People told bar they Wen sou
butterflies ; she kept some, but deoompositioa set In se
rapidly sad WS% Se Anal» that she didn't know which
w 64 going to be finished first—tbe earth or ate. Of the
deal-bearers he described the Priapism meadfiwar, very
beautiful, bat most potthaoas and dangerous to handle.
It wed to be a trick of sailors to tell a young head is
take hold of ma of the..: but nowadays they would
be heavily panished for &pieta' tbe ship of • MUM
" band " f0r.... lima and a Irmos gentleman desailleed
the towiatim, whoa he teethed one sad it put its tenterim
ever hie arm, se If the era had been plunged is bailie,
load. Until last year it was laid dews that turtles wen
eielesively marine animals; bek In lam tart Ib.
Rowers,, of the Royal Botanic Gardena, was lathing
into the Vittoria Regina Met, and as some there the
rise of • pennypiece--veritabie isteduret ; he sy.dithe
discovery knows. the lecturer saw moo at Kew, sad
had seen the Thames so full that you could not put it*
hand 101 l the eater without touching them. Settled
time about jellyfish tied been apart, am that they hod
eyes and even eare, and it prerent they only knew that
what need to be mord eyes and as'.an really not es.
What la their out a Vet/ Prover question: bat we do
not know. It may be that jut as the feels—that the
magnet would attract iroo, and that the torpedo tad
electric eel would give ehocke—lay unsaid for • long
U.., lied yet by 'potteries of the same principles we
are now able to guide ships and send massages, even vocal
ones, through lour dimmers of wire so it may be that
we may leers from the luminosity of jellyfish something
as Important to mumble.' In future as the inagnetlo
needle and the telegraph are to us at the present time.
(Applause,)