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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney
Other Authors of the Classical and the Middle Ages did not add any Observa tions to those made by the great Alexander's great tutor. Although some of the papers of these authors were perhaps not absolutely and entirely fanciful, yet we may say that the true nature of Sponges was discovered by Grant in 1825. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
