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ANTIIOZOA HELIANTHOIDA. 



Fig. 49. 



Hab. " Adheres to rocks at low- water mark, Zetland," Fleming. 



" When contracted, the body seems like two broad rings, of nearly 

 equal breadth, and about half an inch in diameter ; when expanded 

 to nearly two inches, the body consists of two cylindrical portions of 

 different dimensions, smooth, pellucid, yellowish ; a few longitudinal 

 white streaks under the skin ; oral disc not expanded, surrounded 

 with about 18 filiform tentacula in two alternate rows." Fleming. 



11. A. CHRYSANTHELLUM, hodi/ Cylindrical., sMooth, stvipcd ; 

 tentacula ticelwy uniserial, suhnarginal, annulated toith hrown. 

 C. W. Peach.-'^ 



* " But who is that little intelligent-looking man in a faded naval uniform, who is 

 so invariably seen in a particular central seat in this section ? That, gentle reader, is, 

 perhaps, one of the most interesting men who attend the Association. He is only a 

 private in the mounted guard (preventive service), at an obscure part of the Cornwall 

 coast, with four shillings a day, and a wife and nine children, most of whose educa- 

 tion he has himself to conduct. He never tastes the luxuries which are so common 

 in the middle ranks of life, and even amongst a large portion of the working classes. 

 He has to mend with his own hands every sort of thing that can wear or break in 

 his house. Yet Charles Peach is a votary of natural history — not a student of the 

 science in books, for he cannot afford books, but an investigator by sea and shore, a 

 collector of zoophytes and echinodermata, strange creatures, many of which are as 

 yet hardly known to man. These he collects, preserves, and describes ; and every 

 year does he come up to the British Association with a few novelties of this kind, 

 accompanied by illustrative papers and drawings : thus, under circumstances the very 

 opposite of those of such men as Lord Enniskillen, adding, in like manner, to the 

 general stock of knowledge. On the present occasion he is unusually elated, for he 

 has made the discovery of a Holothuria with twenty tentacula, a species of the echi- 

 nodermata, which Edward Forbes, in his book on star-fishes, had said was never yet 

 observed in the British seas. It may be of small moment to you, who, mayhap, 

 know nothing of Holothurias, but it is a considerable thing to the fauna of Britain, 



