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Excerpt from On Some Crustaceans From the Falkland Islands Collected by Mr. Rupert Vallentin
I have frequently detected one of these crustaceans slowly re tiring to the root, as the stem of Macrocystis was being hauled into my boat for examination, and if the rate of hauling was suddenly quickened, one might possibly secure the specimen by making a frantic grab at it before it slipped Off. All the four pairs of ambu lstory appendages modified to enable the animal to cling to this weed. Gu'rin fancied that they were modified for swimming. 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.
