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tolerably clearly that the instinct of maternal love hovers 

 over the young long after they are born.* 



We have obtained the species from trawlers off 

 Plymouth. Mr. Loughrin has sent it us, with their 

 nests built in Plumularia, from Polperro, from which our 

 vignette was drawn. Mr. Edward has sent it to us also, with 

 nests built in Corallina officinalis, taken from rock pools 

 near Banff; and the Rev. A. M. Norman has dredged it 

 in from two to five fathoms in Outer Skerries Harbour, 

 Shetlands, as well as one mile north of Whalsey Lighthouse 

 in forty fathoms of water. Bruzelius records it from 

 the coasts of Norway and Bohusia. 



* In a note to the Translation of Mr. Spence Bate's Paper on the "Nidi- 

 fication of Crustacea," reprinted from the Ann. Nat. Hist. Feb. 1858, into the 

 Annales des Sciences Naturelles, the editor objects to the word ''nests" as 

 applied to these abodes of Crustacea, but the fact that the young are therein 

 nurtured and protected justifies us in continuing the term first used. 









