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source for procuring rare specimens of the inhabitants 

 of the deep, particularly Crustacea and the shelled 

 Mollusca; for the fishes are expert and persevering 

 and successful collectors of natural history, and are 

 continually picking up objects for which the naturalist 

 would almost give one of his eyes. Mr. Gordon of 

 Elgin, some years ago, gave a long list of Crustacea, 

 many of them of great rarity, which he had procured 

 from stomachs of cod-fish, " through the agency of 

 Widow Scott and her son John, of the fishing village 

 of Stotfield," on the Moray Firth. His remarks are 

 suggestive, not only to those residing on the coast, but 

 to the denizens of inland towns. " By a small douceur 

 to the fisherman's family, and by the assistance of the 

 fish-curer on the coast, the fishmonger of the large 

 town, or of some acquaintance in the fishing village, 

 it is believed that almost any number of these now 

 useless receptacles [viz., cod-stomachs], could be ob- 

 tained. It may excite at first a little nausea to open 

 up and examine these omnivorous reservoirs, but this 

 will soon pass off; and were it of longer continuance 

 than it is, the stores to be unfolded would amply com- 

 pensate for all the disagreeable feeling that may for a 

 time arise. It is not only the crustacean that is thus 

 gathered from the inaccessible depths of the ocean, but 

 often the rare shell, with its still rarer inhabitant. The 



