Excerpt from Links in the Chain: Or Popular Chapters on the Curiosities of Animal Life, by George Kearley With Illustrations by F. W. Keyl The Snails worth Attending to. - Are Disregarded because Familiar. Belong to an Old and Long-established Family. - Have Brilliant Relatives Abroad. - Gastropods. - Carpet the Ground as they go. Love Revelations. - Eyes. - Structure of Tentacles. - Seuse of Taste and touch.-at Dinner. - Remedial Powers. - Experimental Mutila tiou. - Tender Demonstrations. - Eggs of Garden Suaxl. - Hyberna trou. - Torpidity in Tropical Droughts. - British species.-african and American species.-mr. Hugh Cunning - A Tr0pic Picture. - Philippine Island Species. - Devoured by Various Animals. Ancient Snail Sties. - Formerly Eaten in England - Prejudice versus Philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.