"Portuguese man-of-war" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... last letter I think I mentioned to you that I had worked out and sent home to the President of the Linnean Society, through Captain Stanley, an account of Physalia, or Portuguese man-of-war as it is called, an animal whose structure and affinities had never been worked out. The careful investigation I made gave rise to several new ideas covering the whole class of animals to which this creature belongs, and these ideas I have had the good fortune ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley |
