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Frith of Forth. On the west coast I found it under stones 

 on the shore at Campbeltown, Argyleshire, plentiful ; and 

 Mr. John Goodsir and I took it both in Orkney and 

 Shetland by the dredge. In the Channel Islands I found 

 it in August 1839 at low water in Herm. 



I doubt not this species will be found on the coasts of 

 France, and in the north of Europe. Starfishes do not 

 seem to be so local in their distribution as Mollusca and 

 the higher classes of animals. Indeed, the remark may 

 be extended to the radiate animals generally ; for among 

 them we find more forms, in proportion to their numbers, 

 common to great tracts of ocean, without reference to 

 climate, than in any other division of the animal kingdom. 



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