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I here bring to a close this record of a day's naturalizing at Herm, not 

 without a hope that what I have written may induce other lovers of 

 Natural History to explore a locality which offers unusual facilities for the 

 study of Marine Zoology; and which would, I feel assured, richly reward 

 any one going thither with proper appliances and means, and having suffi- 

 cient leisure to devote to a thorough investigation of the ground. 



In conclusion, I would merely add as a hint to those who may follow 

 ray footsteps, that, having an eye to creature comforts, which I have shewn 

 do not abound in Herm, I would advise that a bottle of Harvey's Sauce 

 and a pot of Cocoa Paste should form part of the travelling equipage of 

 the visitor; armed with which concomitants, he may dine well of boiled 

 Bass, and defy the acrid flavour of mine host's coffee. 



Annexed is a list of our principal zoological captures, whether by hand 

 or dredge: — • 



MOLLUSCA. 



Thracia phaseolina, 

 Psammobia vespertina, 

 Tellina crassa, 



" donacina, 



" tellinella, 

 Donax politus, (very rare,) 

 Ijutraria oblonga. 

 Tapes pullastra, 



" „ virginea, 



" aurea, 

 Venus verrucosa, 



" casina, 



" fasciata, 

 Artemis exoleta, 



Xantho rivulosa, 

 Pilumnus hirtellus, 

 Pirimela denticulata, 

 Porcellana platycheles, 



Ophiura texturata, 

 Ophiocoma rosula, 

 Solaster papposa. 



Lucina lactea, 

 Kellia suborbicularis, 

 Galeomma Turtoni, 

 Mytilus barbatus, 

 Area tetragona, 



'^ lactea, 

 Pectunculus glycimeris, 

 Nucula nucleus, 

 Lima hians, 

 Pecten varius, 

 Anomia ephippium, 



" striata. 

 Chiton discrepans, 

 "^ cinereus, 



CRUSTACKA. 



Portunus puber, 

 Thia polita, 

 Ebalia Pennantii, 



ECHINODERMATA, 



Asterina gibbosa, 

 Palmipes membranaceus, 

 Echinus sphaera (unusually 



Chiton asellus, 



" lasvis, 

 Acmasa virginea, 

 Calyptraea sinensis, 

 Fissurella reticulata, 

 Eraarginula reticulata, 

 Trochus exiguus, 

 '' striatus, 

 " umbilicatus, 

 Natica nitida, 

 Murex corallinus, 

 Haliotis tuberculata, 

 Cypraea europaea. 



Pisa Gibbsii, 

 Galathea strigosa, 

 Alpheus affinis, (new sp.) 



large.) 

 Echinocyamus pusillus. 



ZOOPHYTA. 



Gorgonia verrucosa, dredged in deep water, (unusually fine.) 



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