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This summary is of a passage from Henry James Clark's 1878 work Lucernariae and Their Allies. The passage describes how a sea creature called a Lucernaria appears healthy for several days after being captured but is actually shedding its outer skin layers both externally and internally. It eventually shows signs of illness by detaching from where it was attached and curling up inactive at the bottom of its aquarium in a shapeless mass.
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- 1. Christoph IrmscherIndiana Universitychristoph.irmscher@gmail.comReading (and Teaching)Henry James Clark
- 6. “It will appear, to the inexperienced eye, to be perfectly and fully well expanded for three, four, or five days after capture, but during all this time it is quietly exfoliating its epidermis, both externally and internally, and finally indicates its illness, in its extreme, by falling from its attachment, and lying inactively at the bottom of the aquarium, contracted and rolled up into a shapeless mass.” Henry James Clark, Lucernariae and Their Allies (1878)