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five separate sorts of zoophytes, besides worms and a 

 number of other parasitical animals. Yet this is 

 nothing to what is at times to be met with ; and yet 

 such things are, I may say, all but universally thrown 

 away for no other or better purpose than that of being 

 trod upon and destroyed. I will now, in order to 

 show the truthfulness of my statement, enumerate a 

 few of the objects which have thus been cast aside by 

 those who had brought them on shore, but which were 

 again picked up by my gleaners, and thereby redeemed, 

 as it were, for a time from destruction, by being depo- 

 sited in my collection : Anomia patelliformis, Circe 

 minuta, Venus cassina, Venus fasciata, Tellina proximo,, 

 Tellina crassa, Mangelia linearis, Pectunculus glyci- 

 meris, Psammdbia tellinella, Astarte compressa, Cor* 

 bula, nucleus, Emarginula reticulata, Thracia mllos- 

 ioscula, Chiton Icevis, etc. etc. 



" Now, I don't say that these are all new species, 

 but I say that they are amongst the rarest of our 

 shells. The two first named are, if I mistake not, 

 new, not only to us, but new to this northern part 

 of the island. In works on Conchology, no mention 

 is made of either having been previously found on the 

 shores of the Moray Firth, although they are not un- 

 frequent on other parts of the British coast." 



The fishermen of Macduff helped him greatly. 

 Amongst the rare fishes caught by them were the 

 Sandsucker (Platessa limandoides) ; the Small Spot- 

 ted Dog-fish (Scyllium canicula) ; the Blue-striped 



