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opportunity of making the careful drawing with which 

 I illustrate this paper. 1 The fishermen and similar 

 persons who pick them up, always endeavour to make 

 a harvest of their captures, not by the sale, but by the 

 exhibition of them, sometimes carrying the specimen 

 from door to door, sometimes erecting a temporary 

 screen in some place of resort, exaggerating the rarity 

 and value of the specimen outrageously. This summer 

 (1862) I have known of three in this vicinity ; and 

 have heard of one at the Isle of Wight, in July, whicli 

 forms the subject of a memoir and a coloured figure by 

 Mr. Humphreys in the Intellectual Observer; also, a 

 fleet of hundreds scattered over both sides of the same 

 island in August, as recorded by Mr. Rogers in the 

 Zoologist ; and finally, one at Tenby in July, obtained 

 by Mr. Hughes, and recorded in the last-named peri- 

 odical. 



Mr. Hughes in his account mentioned a circumstance 

 as normal, which, being unknown to me, excited my curio- 

 sity. His specimen was accompanied by " its attendant 

 satellites, two Velellce." In reply to my inquiries my 

 friend gives me the following information : " My 

 authority for the association of Velella with Physalia 



1 1 ought to say that, as usual in these stranded examples, the tentacles 

 and suckers were so mutilated by washing on the shore, that I have been 

 compelled to aid my observation by the figures of Eschscholtz and Huxley, 

 on whose correctness I could depend. 



