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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



[June 1, 1867. 



The next most conspicuous genus is that of 

 Eunotia, including Eunotia triodon (fig. 115), 

 tetraodon, diadema, octodon, and ennaodon. The 

 crenate Eunotia; with coarse markings might, as 

 suggested by Mr. Ralfs, be advantageously united 

 into one species, which he proposes to call Eunotia 

 robusta. 





Fig. 147. 



Fig:. 148. 



To the foregoing may be added the names of the 

 following, which also occur in theMonmouth deposit : 

 Eunotia Camelus of Ehrenberg, Eunotia octonaria 

 of Ehrenberg, Eunotia hemicyclus of Ehrenberg 

 (fig. 116), Stauroneis Baileyi of Ehrenberg, Stau- 

 roneis phaenicenteron of Ehrenberg, which, although 

 figured before in this journal, is repeated here 

 (fig. 117), and Stauroneis gracilis of Ehrenberg 

 (fig. 148). 



In a future communication I hope to add a 

 description of the rarer forms which I have detected. 

 By that time, I doubt not, many of the readers of 

 this journal will have become possessed of a portion 

 of the deposit about to be distributed, and thus be 

 enabled to follow with more interest any observa- 

 tions which 1 may make. 



Norwich. E. Kitton. 



Coffee is said to have been first brought to Eng- 

 land by Mr. Nathaniel Conopius, a Cretan, who 

 made it his common beverage at Balliol College, at 

 Oxford, in the year 1641 ; but it must evidently 

 have been a few years prior to this date, as Evelyn 

 says in his Diary, 1637, " There came in my tyme 

 to the Coll. one Nathaniel Conopios out of Greece, 

 from Cyrill the Patriarch of Constantinople, who, 

 returning many years after, was made (as I under- 

 stand) Bishop of Smyrna; he was the first I ever 

 saw drink coffee, which custom came not into Eng- 

 land till 30 years after."— Phillips' Fniits of Great 

 Britain. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Curious Sea Anemone.— In the winter of 1865, 

 I found on the sands of Weymouth Bay several 

 Anemones, Anthea Cereus (the lead and vivid green 

 varieties), and Sagartia parasitica on Whelk Shells, 

 cast up by the heavy sea. On taking them home, 

 and putting them into sea water, I found one of the 

 Sagartia parasitica to have tico perfect discs. It was 

 a very large specimen. The tentacula were white. 

 When raw beef was offered to one set of tentaculee, 

 the other set showed no sign of closing, or sensation 

 from the presence of meat. Having had much 

 experience in keeping sea monsters of various kinds 

 upwards of nine years, and yet never having met 

 with such a curiosity before, I should esteem it a 

 favour if any gentleman would intimate, through the 

 pages of the Journal, of having met with a similar 

 case in any variety. — Alfred Rawes, Bath. 



Amputated Anemone. — I have often noticed, 

 in books on Aquaria, the assertion that a healthy 

 Actinia mesembryanthemum, if cut vertically in 

 two, will form two perfect Anemones ; but the fol- 

 lowing fact will, I think, interest all aquarians. 

 Last year I received a consignment of Anemones 

 from Tenby. A Sagartia nivea having been roughly 

 detached from the rock, was suffering from a rupture 

 on one side ; it was very bad, and was coated with 

 mucus and white threads. In a day or two the side 

 began to decay, and quite tainted the water of the 

 temporary shallow pan in which I had placed it; 

 during this, the other side of the Anemone was 

 quite healthy, and the tentacles expanded. I thought 

 it was a pity to lose this Anemone, and debated 

 in my mind what amputation would effect; so 

 determining to try the experiment, I took a 

 sharp knife, and cut the anemone in two, cutting off 

 all decayed matter, and put the remainder on a rock 

 in the shady part of a well-established tank. In a 

 day or so, the Anemone assumed the shape of a 

 crescent, and the severed sides, in the course of ten 

 days, joined, forming a circular Anemone, quite 

 perfect, without the slightest trace of a seam. This 

 curiosity fed, throve, lived in my tank for months 

 after.— Alfred llawes, Bath. 



A Elea Encampment. — In moving a bed some 

 time ago we came upon an encampment of the 

 enemy. The flea wigwams were scattered over the 

 white surface of a long piece of dimity placed 

 between the bed and the partition of the room. I 

 had often asked what became of fleas in cold 

 weather ; and here, in this hamlet of minute [huts, 

 the mystery was explained : we saw them in winter 

 quarters; each habitation was a little over one- 

 eighth of an inch long, and the exact shape of a 

 cocoon, attached to the white field of the dimity, 

 apparently after the manner of a chrysalis. While 



