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to the shore in shallow water, in which case I have never found 

 any difficulty in drying them. Those found in this way are always 

 thin, being probably in a sickly state. 



This spring I have three in good full condition. The first I 

 brought up in the dredge with a number of large urchins {Echinus 

 sjjhcera), with strong sharp spines, no doubt causing considerable 

 irritation to Luidia. It was placed in a little water in the bottom 

 of tlie boat, and lay there fully two hours, then carried home 

 exposed to the air, and finally paid the last debt of nature, and 

 still remained whole. Another was brought me by a fisherman 

 in a basket, having been several hours out of the water, with the 

 same result. A tliird was brought in the same way, but it began 

 to break up when being taken from the fisherman's basket. I 

 learned that this one had been nearly seven hours out of the 

 water, from which we may reasonably infer, that had I got it a little 

 sooner, or had a little more tenderness been used by the fisherman, 

 who handled it very roughly, it might also have been preserved 

 whole, — shoAving that in some conditions or seasons they are not 

 pre-eminently brittle. These were all above a foot across, and of 

 the seven-rayed variety. 



Crihella rosea. — The rays of this beautiful star-fish, in common 

 with Uraster glacialis, have a tendency to break close off" by the 

 disk — a fact I have not seen noticed. 



Solaster endeca. — A specimen with six rays — the usual number 

 being from nine to eleven. 



Gohius bqmndatus and Crenilahrus nvpestris. — These are additions 

 to our list of the fishes of the Clyde. 



Pagurus Thomjjsoni. — Bell gives, as the habitat of this hermit 

 crab, the entrance of Belfast bay at fifty fathoms, where it was 

 dredged by Mr Hyndman. I have got two this season on a scallop 

 bank off" the Bute shore, opposite the south-west end of Cumbrae, 

 and believe that they may be found common along the whole 

 bank. 



Inuchus lejHochmis. — This crab is also found moderately common 

 on the Bute side on scallop banks, but is, I believe, rare on the 

 Cumbrae side on similar banks, thus confirming the importance of 

 investigating the wJwle shores of the Frith of Clyde in getting our 

 lists of marine plants and animals completed. 



Edwardsia car-ma. — This small anemone, which is new to Scot- 

 land, I have taken at Cumbrae. 



