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Living lights

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
By Charles Frederick Holder
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The volume surveys natural luminescence across animal, plant, and mineral realms, emphasizing marine bioluminescence from surface foam to abyssal depths. It catalogs luminous protozoans, jellyfishes, fishes, crustaceans, echinoderms, shell-bearing and subterranean forms, and terrestrial examples such as fireflies, glowing fungi, and luminescent minerals, with illustrative plates and systematic chapter divisions. Field observations and simple experiments are presented alongside descriptions of appearances and possible functions of light, and reflections on human interactions with the phenomenon. An appendix and bibliography provide technical references for further study, while the tone and organization aim to engage young naturalists and general readers.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Pyrosoma and Diver (Plate XVII.) Facing Title.
Sea Bottom. 1,500 metres, or one-quarter of mile in depth Facing Page 1
FACING PAGE
Plate I. Luminous Protozoans—Luminous Portions of Noctiluca 3
„ II. M. de Tussan Reading by Light of Phosphorescent Sea 7
„ III. Luminous Sea Jelly—Luminous Coral—Pruning-knife Fish 11
„ IV. Luminous Sea Jelly and Mollusk
„ V. Venus’ Girdle 15
„ VI. Apolemia—Cleodora—Praya 43
„ VII. Burrow of Pholas—Sea Pen 39
„ VIII. Luminous Star Fishes. From 4,500 feet deep 29
„ IX. Luminous Beetles, etc. 47
„ X. Anatomical Details 53
„ XI. Luminous Beetle, in burrow of Mole Cricket 59
„ XII. The Lantern Fly 63
„ XIII. Luminous Mushrooms—Luminous Insect 137
„ XIV. Spider Crab 75
„ XV. Luminous Crustaceans 79
„ XVI. Chain of Salps 89
„ XVIII. Chiasmodus—Sun-Fish—Plagiodus—Harpodon—Beryx 97
„ XIX. Luminous Fish. From depth of 8,100 feet 103
„ XX. Luminous Fish 115
„ XXI. Umbellularia—Luminous Fish—Silicious Sponge—Luminous Corals—Luminous Crustacean 125
„ XXII. Luminous Fish. With two luminous disks, one emitting a golden, the other a greenish light 132
„ XXIII. Deep Sea Angler 145
„ XXIV. Pelican Fish 155
„ XXV. Luminous Waterspout 163
„ XXVI. Luminosity of Heron’s Breast 109

SEA BOTTOM.

1,500 metres, or one quarter of mile in depth.