The Octopus
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Description
Henry Lee, naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium, wrote this study of the octopus, published in London in 1875. Its subtitle calls the creature the devil-fish of fiction and of fact. A plate shows Octopus vulgaris, the common kind, at the front of the book.
Lee dedicates the little book to James Scott Bowerbank, an originator of the water vivarium. Bowerbank's advice and cheering encouragement, Lee says, helped him as they helped many others. Lee sets out to sort true habits of the animal from sailors' tales and novelists' horrors, using his aquarium work as ground for fact.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 224 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |