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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 23: 1871-1872: Aet. 64-65. (search)
o occur among them. The most interesting discovery of our voyage thus far, however, is that of a nest built by a fish, and floating on the broad ocean with its living freight. On the 13th, Mr. Mansfield, one of our officers, brought me a ball of Gulf weed which he had just picked up, and which excited my curiosity to the utmost. It was a round mass of Sargassum about the size of two fists. The bulk of the ball was made up of closely packed branches and leaves, held together by fine threads, while other branches hung more loosely from the margin. Placed in a large bowl of water it became apparent that the loose branches served to keep the central mass floating, cradle-like, between them. The elastic threads, which held the ball of Gulf weed together, were beaded at intervals, sometimes two or three beads close together, or a bunch of them hanging from the same cluster of threads, or occasionally scattered at a greater distance from each other. Nowhere was there much regularity
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
udience, 407. Lyell, Sir, Charles, 234; accepts glacial theory, 309. Lyman, T., 680. M. Madrepores, 440. Magellan, Strait of, 715. Mahir, 55, 67, 83. Maine, visit to, 622. Man, origin of, 497; compared with monkeys, 499; distinction of races, 500, 504; form of nose, 500; geographical distribution, 502. Man prehistoric in S. America, 642. Marcou, J., 679. Martius, L. von, 44, 52, 53, 54, 57, 79, 150, 641. Mastodon of U. S. compared to old world, 451. Mathias, Gulf of, 712. Mayne's Harbor, 741. Mayor, Dr., 9; death of, 118. Mayor, Auguste, 415. Mayor, Francois, 14 Mayor, Lisette, 10. Mayor, Mathias, 15. Meckel, 155. Medusae, 440, 548; relation to echinoderms, 489; beroids, 489; tiaropsis, 494; campanularia, 494. Megatherium, 576. Melimova Mountain, 747. Mellet, Pastor, 36. Mercantile Library Association, meeting of, 411. Meril, the chalets of, 325, 331. Michahelles, 55, 109. Micraster, 710. Miller, Hugh, 367, 4