Featured on PDR in the collection Living Lights: a Popular Account of Phosphorescent Animals and Vegetables (1887)

A beautifully illustrated book all about creatures endowed with the remarkable ability to produce and emit light: what we now call "bioluminescence". In addition to the exquisite illustrations (which seem to be from the hand of someone called "A. L. Clement"), the author Charles Frederick Holder gives us some wonderful anecdotes relating to these light-giving creatures, such as the following about an American gentleman's experience at a masquerade ball in South America: