{37} _Sertularia operculata_ and _Gemellaria lociculata_; or any of the
small _Sertulariæ_, compared with _Crisiæ_ and _Cellulariæ_, are very
good examples. For a fuller description of these, see Appendix
explaining Plate I.
{67} If any inland reader wishes to see the action of this foot, in the
bivalve Molluscs, let him look at the Common Pond-Mussel (Anodon
Cygneus), which he will find in most stagnant waters, and see how he
burrows with it in the mud, and how, when the water is drawn off, he
walks solemnly into deeper water, leaving a furrow behind him.
{70} These shells are so common that I have not cared to figure them.
{72} Plate IX. Fig. 3, represents both parasites on the dead Turritella.
{74} A few words on him, and on sea-anemones in general, may be found in
Appendix II. But full details, accompanied with beautiful plates, may be
found in Mr. Gosse’s work on British sea-anemones and madrepores, which
ought to be in every seaside library.
{90} Handbook to the Marine Aquarium of the Crystal Palace.
{111} An admirable paper on this extraordinary family may be found in
the Zoological Society’s Proceedings for July 1858, by Messrs. S. P.
Woodward and the late lamented Lucas Barrett. See also Quatrefages, I.
82, or Synapta Duvernæi.
{113} Thalassema Neptuni (Forbes’ British Star-Fishes, p. 259),
{116} The Londoner may see specimens of them at the Zoological Gardens
and at the Crystal Palace; as also of the rare and beautiful Sabella,
figured in the same plate; and of the Balanophyllia, or a closely-allied
species, from the Mediterranean, mentioned in p. 109.
{118} A Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devonshire Coast, p. 110.
{121} Balanophyllia regia, Plate V. fig. 1.
{126a} Amphidotus cordatus.
{126b} Echinus miliaris, Plate VII.
{127} See Professor Sedgwick’s last edition of the “Discourses on the
Studies of Cambridge.”
{129} Fissurella græca, Plate X. fig. 5.
{130a} Doris tuberculata and bilineata.
{130b} Eolis papi losa. A Doris and an Eolis, though not of these
species, are figured in Plate X.
{136} Plate III.
{138} Certain Parisian zoologists have done me the honour to hint that
this description was a play of fancy. I can only answer, that I saw it
with my own eyes in my own aquarium. I am not, I hope, in the habit of
drawing on my fancy in the presence of infinitely more marvellous Nature.
Truth is quite strange enough to be interesting without lies.
{139a} Saxicava rugosa, Plate XI. fig. 2.
{139b} Plate VIII. represents the common Nassa, with the still more
common Littorina littorea, their teeth-studded palates, and the free
swimming young of the Nassa. (_Vide_ Appendix.)
{140a} Cypræa Europæa.
{140b} Botrylli.
{140c}
_Molluscs_.
Doris tuberculata. Sigaretus.
— bilineata. Fissurella.
Eolis papillosa. Arca lactea.
Pleurobranchus plumila. Pecten pusio.
Neritina. Tapes pullastra.
Cypræa. Kellia suborbicularis.
Trochus,—2 species. Shænia Binghami.
Mangelia. Saxicava rugosa.
Triton. Gastrochoena pholadia.
Trophon. Pholas parva.