The Rôle of Chætopods (Segmented Worms) in Their Relation to Man

blrds, and likewise the Polychsetes, or bristle^orms, which live in the sand or slime on the bed of the sea or tidal rivers, provide food for vast numbers of fish, these worms indeed being s?nietimes used as baits by fishermen. And j^ore directly than this, man sometimes uses hese creatures for food; Professor Percy Moore Pennsylvania University has informed us hat he has seen Italians engaged on rail-conduction in the United States using earth-worms or making soup, the worms being boiled and he solids then strained off and discarded. They ^nnot however be considered to have much *rect food value to man, otherwise they would exist in such numbers as they do while Poor beggars are rummaging in dustbins for scraps of food. At any rate we are told by rHutton on the authority of a friend of his who made a ' practice of experimenting on every sort of animal and insect food' that they