By A. E. Shipley, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow and Tutor of Christ’s College, Cambridge; Reader in Zoology

PYCNOGONIDA

By D’Arcy W. Thompson, C.B., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor of Natural History in University College, Dundee

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON

1909

All the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world, with all the old German bogypainters into the bargain, could never invent ... anything so curious, and so ridiculous, as a lobster.

Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies.

For, Spider, thou art like the poet poor,

Whom thou hast help’d in song.