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Excerpt from Sponges: Poriferae
Even after the sponges had been fairly introduced into the system of the Zoologist, they received comparative ly little attention. In fact there is scarcely any group of animals which are so widely distributed, and which are rep resented by so many species as the sponges, which have been studied so little, by naturalists. What is true of sponges in general, is true of the sponges of North Ameri ca, especially of the West Indian and Florida waters. 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.
