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John Harper wrote Glimpses of Ocean Life, subtitled Or, Rock-Pools and the Lessons they Teach. An epigraph credited to Rhymer Jones names the true spirit in which the aquarïst ought to work. The text says that in a simple drop of sea-water, no larger than the head of a pin, the microscope will discover a million of animals. The text says there are some delicate sea-shells (foraminifera) so minute that the point of a fine needle at one touch crushes hundreds of them.
The text describes the branchial organs of a specimen as very beautiful objects, formed of three blood-red spiral tufts. The text says the Blennies, when thus situated, usually make a kind of noise not inaptly expressed by snapping the nail of the thumb and finger together.
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- John Harper
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