Barnacles in Nature and in Myth
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: May 20, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780766157552
Subjects: Marine biology; Myths & mythology; Folklore & Mythology - Mythology; Life Sciences - Biology - Marine Biology; Life Sciences - Zoology - Invertebrates; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates; Science-Life Sciences - Biology - Marine Biology; Social Science-Folklore & Mythology - Mythology; Science
First sentence: IT is always a fragment of interesting, if useless, information to the layman to be told that the water-fleas in his bird-basin, and the Barnacles which, according as they are stalked or sessile, arouse his wonder or his wrath, are 'a kind of lobster'.