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The Scottish Naturalis 



No. 4.] 1912 [April 



ON THE STORM OF JANUARY, 1912, IN THE 

 BAY OF ST ANDREWS. 



By Prof. W. C. M'lNTOSH, F.R.S. 



The recent storm, with a south-east wind, on the East 

 Coast was fully felt in the Bay of St Andrews from the 

 1 6th January onward, and the vast masses of organisms, 

 living and dead, thrown on the west sands formed a source 

 of deep interest for a week. The debris extended from the 

 Club to the Eden, and in some places was nearly knee-deep, 

 with a breadth from high-water mark seawards here and 

 there of a hundred yards. The mass was chiefly composed 

 of the empty tubes of the common Terebellid [Lanice 

 eoucliilega), and vast numbers of the common heart urchin 

 filled with sand, intermingled throughout its entire extent 

 with numerous bivalve and univalve shells, the former, 

 however, being the most conspicuous, and including thousands 

 of Cyprina, Lutraria, Mya truneata, Cardium eckinaium^ swarms 

 of Venus exoleta, V. I in eta, V. faseiata, Luein apsis 11 n data, 

 Tellina balthica, T. tennis, T. fabula, Donax vittatus, Mactra 

 solida in great profusion, along with M. subtnineata and M. 

 stultorum. The genus So/en was everywhere conspicuous, 

 viz., S. pellueidus, S. ensis, and 5. siliqua. The boring forms, 

 such as ZirpJuza crispata and Saxicava, were apparently 

 absent. There were comparatively few Anomiee, common 

 cockles and mussels, Psammobiee, Scrobicularite, and Tlwaciee. 

 The most conspicuous univalves were Buccinum, Patella, 

 Trochus cinerarius, Lit tori nee, Natiea catena, and N. alderi, 

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