HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



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A MARINE ZOOLOGICAL HARVEST. 

 HEY say it's an ill wind that bkws nobody any 



JL good, and the same wind which wrecked so 

 many ships on the Yorkshire coast in the last week 

 of October, strewed the shores with a rich harvest of 

 marine spoils for the zoologist. I went down to 

 Redcar the following week, in the anticipation of 

 adding to my collections, and was well rewarded. 



numbers of the handsome Cyprina Islamiica of all 

 sizes lay about. Lutraria dUptica, with its great 

 siphons, had been torn up in numbers from its muddy 

 home in the Tees, and was eagerly gathered for bait 

 by the fishermen. Very common also were Tapes 

 puilastra, Donax anatiitits, Mactra siihtruncata and 

 solida, Artemis lincta, and Liicinopsis uiidaia. I 

 gathered live specimens of Psammobia Fcrroensis, 

 Venus striatula and Cardiiim echinatuin. Two 

 shells seldom seen on this coast, though common in 



Fig. 2. — TaJ>ei j^uiiaiira. 



Fig. 3.— Dog-whelk 

 (Purpura lapillus). 



Fig. I.— Razor-shell 

 (Soldi eiisisj. 



Fig. $.— Mactra stultorum. 



Fig. 6. — Trochus zizyphinus. 



Fig. 4. — Pccten varius. 



The stretch of sand from Redcar to the Tees mouth 

 was at various points covered with deposits of small 

 coal, and among these were a great number of shells, 

 zoophytes, &c., all of them alive. The shore-collector 

 is seldom rewarded with anything but dead shells, 

 but here one might reap the advantages of dredging, 

 minus its unpleasant accompaniments of sea-sickness 

 and expense. Of course live specimens of Mactra 

 stultorum and Sokn ensis were in profusion. Great 



Fig. 7. — Xatica 

 inoiiili/era. 



the south, occurred, viz. Tapes virginea and Artemis 

 exoleta: Pholas crispata, Saxicava rugosa, Syndosmya 

 alba, Tellina tenuis avLAjabula, Scrobicularia piperata, 

 Modiola modiolus, Pecten opcrcularis, varius and pusio 

 complete the list of bivalves I obtained, 



' The univalves were less numerous and interesting. 

 Great live specimens of Fusus antic] iius were common, 

 and dead ones of Fusus Islandlcus. Buccinum, 

 Purpura, the common species of Littorina, Lacuna 

 ■pallidula and vincta of course abounded. There 

 were many fine live specimens of Natica monilifera 

 and dead ones of Troc/ius zizyphinus (not common in 

 Yorkshire) Turritella communis and Patella pellucida. 



