Rita Boutros

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Through the Looking Glass · Coffee Break Collection 026 - It's a Small World - Various · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

Thereby hoping to create sufficient interest to induce you to stroll to out-of-the-way places where you may find many of nature's marvelous works.

We want more field workers in every department of natural history, and especially in microscopy.

Where unexplored fields are awaiting you.

When the tide is receded, various objects of interest will meet your eye at every step.

Look at that old dead seashell covered with a rough, shaggy nap.

Ah, as we approach the shell is moving off.

What can it mean?

Why, it means that a hermit crab has set up housekeeping in the old shell, and he no doubt thinks us suspicious characters and wants none of our company.

But we are after microscopic objects now, and this hermit, interesting as he is, is not to claim our attention today.

The rough coat on the outside of the shell is of more interest.

With the aid of a pocket lens you will find it another zoophyte.

You can see the polyps, as thick as they can well stand, rising erect and straight from the shaggy coat like a miniature field of wheat.

With a higher power you will see that each mouth is surrounded with tentacles like those of Laomeda.

But yet it is quite a different looking creature.

If we touch one of these polyps ever so lightly, the great army immediately close their tentacles, for the same life pervades the entire colony.

And those on the extreme outer edge feel the contact as quickly as the one we touched.

One of the most comical and amusing creatures of all the zoophyte tribe is figured and described by mister Goss under the name of Lar Sabalaron.

He was the first observer of this curious creature.

He found it inhabiting the outer edge of the tube of a worm, the Sibella.

So when you are looking for microscopic objects, do not overlook any tube that you may see standing above the surface of sand and mud.

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