Project Gutenberg 2025-05-21 Public domain in the USA. 175 Holder, Charles Frederick 1851 1915 Clément, A.-L. (Armand-Lucien) 1848 1921 Clement, A.-L. Clément, A. L. Clement, A. L. Clément, Armand-Lucien Living lights : $b A popular account of phosphorescent animals and vegetables $aLondon :$bSampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, $c1887. "Bibliography of works on phosphorescence": p. 179-184. deaurider, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Living lights : A popular account of phosphorescent animals and vegetables" by Charles Frederick Holder is a popular natural history book written in the late 19th century. It explores the phenomenon of bioluminescence across the animal and plant kingdoms (and even minerals), with special emphasis on marine life, presenting vivid observations, experiments, and travel reports to engage curious readers and young naturalists. The opening of the book lays out the author’s aim to entice young people into outdoor observation through the marvels of natural light, noting that while luminous organs are well described, the true cause of animal phosphorescence remains unknown. It then surveys bioluminescence at sea: the teeming, star-like glow of Noctiluca at the surface; the “meteors” of jellyfish and ctenophores such as Venus’ girdle; and fixed “lights” like sea anemones, corals, sea-fans, and sea-pens that can illuminate whole underwater “forests.” Next come deep-sea echinoderms—brilliant starfish and ophiuroids dredged from great depths—followed by luminous worms, from earthworms and rotifers to flamboyantly glowing marine polychaetes. The narrative turns to mollusks, from the lamp-like Pholas to wing-footed pteropods (Cleodora) and the striking, transparent Phyllirhoë, with notes on possible glow in squids. It concludes this opening stretch by introducing lightning-bugs, blending field anecdotes (including Jamaican fireflies) with clear descriptions of their light organs and behavior. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t5db7wt2g 20241121072733holder 1887 GB Reading ease score: 58.2 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Animals Phosphorescence Bioluminescence QL Text Category: Science - Biology Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals 425780 2025-07-30T06:48:16.174965 text/html 393876 2025-05-21T10:08:58 text/html 2926984 2025-07-30T06:48:25.635898 application/epub+zip 2924644 2025-07-30T06:48:18.172956 application/epub+zip 349647 2025-07-30T06:48:17.093938 application/epub+zip 3712456 2025-07-30T06:48:30.611854 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3678997 2025-07-30T06:48:24.325932 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 353568 2025-07-30T06:48:14.770972 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 333587 2025-05-21T10:08:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15133 2025-07-30T06:48:30.809837 application/rdf+xml 22924 2025-07-30T06:48:17.399908 image/jpeg 2938 2025-07-30T06:48:17.242904 image/jpeg 2567037 2025-07-30T06:48:16.281929 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia