114 THE DISPERSAL OF SHELLS. 



months, and three individuals remained alive after the 

 voyage to England, which occupied ten v/eeks. They 

 were brought over, packed in paper and rags, in a tin 

 box with a lid, and were not taken out until a fortnight 

 after their arrival. One lived for some months under a 

 bell-glass with moss and ferns/ A specimen of Rha- 

 phaulus cJiry sails, collected in the month of January by 

 Captain R. H. Sankey, remained closed in its shell until 

 27th of June, when it yielded slowly to the means em- 

 ployed to revive it, finally moving about and creeping 

 freely under an inverted glass. CyclopJiorus indicus, from 

 Bombay, was once received by Mr. Benson in a living 

 state, after a voyage round the Cape, occupying four 

 months.^ According to a statement by Mr. John Curtis 

 in 183 1, operculate molluscs have been reanimated after 

 having remained dormant in cabinets for .very long 

 periods, " it has been said for forty years " ! '^ 



' S. P. Woodward, "Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.," (3), iv. (1859), 

 320. 



2 W. H. Benson (on 7?. chrysalis and C. indicus), "Ann. and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist.," (3), iv. (1859), 93-4. 



3 J. Curtis, "Trans. Lin. Soc," xvi. (1833), 766-7. 



