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little water supplied at intervals and feeding small larvas of flies 

 have been his only care. 



"The adults, because of their peculiarities in respiration and 

 the consequent necessity of keeping their skin moist, cannot be 

 kept either in water or a dry atmosphere, but may easily be kept 

 for months in an ordinary fernery where the atmosphere is con- 

 stantly saturated with moisture." 



The adults here exhibited have been kept since Christmas, 

 1899, in a smaU fernery made for the purpose 10" x 10' x 14" hold- 

 ing a shallow zinc tray one half of which is planted with 

 the ordinary greenhouse plant called Lycopodium, the 

 other is coarse sand and gravel ; in this sand a small 

 dish is sunk level containing water. This miniature tank is an 

 aquarium on a small scale and contains small stones, gravel and 

 sand, Anachuris and Spirogyru, and furnishes a suitable abode for 

 some small larvae. It supplies at the same time sufficient moisture 

 for the adults and for the Lycopodium. A glass cover must be 

 kept at all times over the fernery to prevent the escape of the 

 captives, who seem to require little food. Mine have had some 

 larvae of flies occasionally put in the small tank ; no other atten- 

 tion has been given them. 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



I. The Squid, in St. John Harbour, Sept. 2, 1899. 



While in the City of St. John, N.B., I had the privilege to 

 witness a sight which was both unusual and interesting, and, in 

 my estimation, worthy of record. On the morning of September 

 2nd, 1899, the harbour of St. John, in many of its approaches and 

 shores was visited or literally infested with an unprecedentedly 

 large school of Squids (Onimatostrephes illecebfosa, LeSueur). 

 This is the common *' squid " of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, New- 

 foundland and North Atlantic waters, generally used by fishermen 

 as bait in the cod fishery, and belongs to the section Decapoda of the 

 Cephalopoda dibranchiata. My attention was first called to the 

 occurrence of this creature by a number of small boys who had in 

 their possession a number of narrowly elongate and transparent 

 or hyaline shafts or arrow-like pens about nine inches in length. 



