| If the reader will examine the outside of a Pholas shell, he will find it studded, in regular rows, with little projections. |
| The bodies of other marine animals shine after death, none perhaps so vividly as that of the Pholas, a mollusk well known to those who reside on the coast. |
| Observations in aquaria have shown that the young Pholas begins his process of home-building very early in life. |
