270 Alexander Goodman More. [i877 



And the great squid, of Bofin, does duty in an entirely 

 novel capacity : 



I turned for a little instruction to the cases containing the Irish 

 Crustacea, for I wanted to know a little more about an animal of which, 

 before leaving home, I had purchased a couple of dozen under the 

 name of " prawn." For the last quarter of an hour I had been 

 engaged in a desultory conversation with a member of the British 

 Association at least he displayed a pink ticket conspicuously under 

 the band of his note-book and we searched together for this lost 

 "Irish prawn," which proved to be the " Norway lobster" (Nephrops 

 norvegicus), a species bigger than the largest freshwater crayfish (Asta- 

 cus fluviatilis). The name was all very well, but on intimating a desire 

 to know more about this interesting crustacean, especially with regard 

 to its edible qualities, my new acquaintance assured me, in an off- 

 hand manner, that I should find out all about it in Yarrell's " British 

 Fishes." There was not so much as a twinkle in his eye as he said 

 this, but I found it convenient to remove my quarters, and to take 

 shelter behind the jar containing the beak of the rare and gigantic 

 cuttlefish (Architeuthis dux), captured off Innisbofin, an account of 

 which appeared in the Zoologist a few years since from the pen of 

 Mr. A. G. More. 



The Association broke up on Tuesday, August 2oth, 

 and he hurried away to Galway, for six weeks' sport and 

 specimen-hunting. For a sixth time he made Roundstone 

 his head-quarters ; again searched Craigga-more for Erica 

 ciliaris, and again sailed to Corrig-na-mackan " to look 

 for big seals." In September Mr. Howard Saunders also 

 came to Roundstone, and shared in some of his seal-hunts. 

 They made expeditions to Carna and Gowla Bay, and 

 several of the " big beasts" were bagged. Mr. More had 

 also a wish to revisit Inish-bofin, and had sailed from 

 Roundstone to Kilkieran, intending to proceed further, 

 when a terrific gale set in (Sept. 14-15) which utterly dis- 

 concerted all his arrangements. On the i4th (after killing 

 a Rone-More early in the day) he returned by car from 

 Kilkieran to Roundstone before the storm had risen to its 

 maximum. But although he had escaped the worst part, 

 the exposure told on him, and for the rest of his stay at 

 Roundstone he was quite an invalid. The seals were now 

 left alone, and the sole events, almost, mentioned in his 

 diary are the sight of three Pomarhine Skuas on the sand- 

 hills, the day after the great gale, and a "lecture on 



