Life And Her Children Yesterdays Classics - Arabella B. Buckley

An Engaging Introduction To The Invertebrates, Beginning With The Simple Amb And Concluding With The Complex Centipedes, Spiders, And Six-legged Insects. In Between The Reader Encounters A Number Of Groups Of Animals Of Increasing Complexity, Beginning With The Living Sponge, The Traveling Jelly-fish, And The Wondrous Coral-builders, Then Passing On To The Star-fish, Sea-urchins, And Sea-cucumbers. Next Come Mussels And Snails, Cuttle-fish And Oysters, Followed By Creeping Worms, And Arriving At Last At The Joint-legged Division Including Crabs That Live In The Water, As Well As The Aforementioned Centipedes, Spiders, And Insects That Breathe Only In The Air, Which Comprise More Than Four-fifths Of The Living Beings On Our Globe.