Aristotle's History of Animals In Ten Books

BOOK IV.--Animals without blood, and first, the cephalopods, are

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described; then the crustaceans, testacea, echinidæ, ascidians, actiniæ, hermit crabs, insects. In the eighth chapter the organs of sense are considered, and afterwards, the voice, sleep, age, and differences of the sexes in animals are described.