delicate, could hardly be removed by other creatures. Instead, therefore, of being helpless at their birth, the young Sponges can, by means of their cilia, row themselves about at pleasure, and enjoy for a period powers of locomotion denied to their adult state."*

* Outline of Anim. Kingd. 17.

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