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Art. VI. Illustrations in British Zoology. By George Johnston, 

 M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 



^'carus Baxter/, {fig. 51.) 



e, the dorsal aspect ; b, the ventral aspect. 



I have too slight an acquaintance with the ^caridae to 

 become the historian of any one amongst them ; but it may 

 be allowed me to direct attention to a species of which I can 

 find no notice or description beyond what is so short and 

 vague, that there must be doubts respecting its applicability. 

 In my examinations of sea- weeds and animals — pursued now 

 for many years, with an annual increase in their interest, 

 although amid constant interruptions, which, though they have 

 not cured this " inborn obliquity of taste," may, perhaps, 

 in some degree, excuse the superficialness of my inquiries, 

 and palliate the blunders which have hence originated — in 

 these examinations there has many a time crossed me a little 

 mite, of no very prepossessing appearance, indeed, but to which, 

 from the peculiarity of its habitats, I have now and then said, 

 " What doest thou here ? Verily, not many of thy congeners 

 are inhabitants of the waters, and fewer still, methinks, choose 

 the salt brine of the ocean for their dwelling : " and then I 

 have allowed him to pass away with my soliloquy, until a 

 recent perusal of Duges's Memoires " sur les Acariens " has 

 induced me to become better acquainted with this sea-born 

 species. 



I remember that, in some volume of the Philosophical Trans- 

 actions (and it would be most unreasonable for any reader 

 of the Magazine to call on a provincial apothecary to quote 

 the volume or the page of so great a book); I remember, that 

 Dr. Job Baster therein figures (1 am certain he does not 

 describe) two marine mites; one with long legs, like a plalan- 

 goid spider, and one with legs of moderate proportions. The 



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