18 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 



means of attachment being small points which are protruded from the skin. 

 As No. 1 appears sickly, I have taken it and put it into a pool between 

 high and low-water-mark^ wishing to see if it will make its habitat there 

 and recover. 



April 1st, — I have repeatedly examined the pool for No. t, but find it 

 is not there; whether it has floated or been washed away I cannot tell. 

 This morning put No. 2 into the same pool, but on looking for it in the 

 evening, found it was gone. No. 3 continues lively, and frequently displays 

 its tentacula. Tor several days past it has had no other food than what 

 it may derive from the water in which it is kept. 



23rd. — Gave No. 3 a piece of Cod liver yesterday morning; to-day I 

 thought I saw small portions of it in the points of the tentacula, as if it 

 were passing through the animal's system : it is easily recognised by its 

 colour being of a deeper red than the animal itself. 



May 4th. — The Polyp continues in much the same state as formerly. I 

 have fed it occasionally with Cod liver, and feel persuaded that it derives 

 some nutriment from it, and I have repeatedly noticed that portions of it 

 appear to pass into the tentacula. 



My notes conclude here, and I have little more to add, for at this distance 

 of time it would not be safe to draw largely on the memory; indeed I fear 

 I have already written at too great length. In addition to these I had 

 several other Polypes, some of them differing considerably from those before 

 described, but all exhibiting the same general characters. One of these was 

 quite white, bad a cylindrical body, and its tentacula were long and slender — 

 in truth like a mass of hair. Another specimen had no tentacula at all, 

 but instead it was surrounded by frills. Both of these were of great size, 

 and measured from twelve to eighteen inches in length when fully expanded in 

 the water; there was nothing remarkably different in their habits from those 

 which I have already described. The habitat of these larger Polypes seems 

 to be in water of twenty or thirty fathoms deep. They are drawn up on 

 the fishermen's lines generally attached to a stone or large shell. I have 

 seen them frequently in the harbour here, but they must have been brought 

 in by the fishing-boats, and thrown overboard. 



Dunbar, 1852. 



3^istdlniifnu3 JMlns. 



A remarkable Kitten.— 1 had a very curious Kitten given me last week by Mr. "Wright, of 

 this town. It had neither mouth nor nose, and only one eye, and that stood exactly whore 

 the mouth ought to be. The eye^ instead of being a light blue or slate-colour, and closed for 

 several days— as is the general rule with Kittens— was open and clear; the iris was of a dark 

 brown, and the pupil black. The skull, which I placed in an ant's nest to be cleaned, was in 

 shape and size similar to a Jackdaw's egg. There were no holes in it or eye sockets, nostrils, or 

 ears; in fact, there were but two holes in it, one of which was at the eye, where a small nerve 

 communicated with the brain, and the other at the pole for the admission of the spinal marrow. 

 The Kitten itself was remarkably large, and of course dead when first discovered. I have the 

 Kitten preserved.— Michael "Westcott, St, Cuthbert's Place, Wells, Somerset, Sept, 13th., 1852, 



