Whelks. 

 Right=handed. Left=handed. 



fossilized fruit from the London clay ; numbers of clay 

 pipes from about A.D. 1600, including one with an oyster 

 grown into the bow T l ; old keys ; the shell of a crab with 

 sixteen oysters grown on it ; a Schiedam bottle of suggestively 

 contraband appearance, with oysters adhering to it ; tiles 

 from Arehacon, in France, laid for spat, being coated with 

 lime, so that the spat could be eased off with a knife, and 

 allowed to look after themselves, to save them from being 

 crowded out of life ; oyster shells covered with the work of 

 the Ross worm, which produces its own lime as it proceeds, 

 as a spider does its web ; a basket dredged up in the North 

 Sea coated with spat ; various jars, stag horns, flint pistols 

 covered with marine growth, a battle axe, an ox head r 

 various red amphorae, long tusks, and a leg bone, four feet 

 in length. 



There is in the museum a very original 

 Mouse Trap. 



ys er mouse-trap preserved in spirits of wine. 



It appears that some oysters, not being 

 wanted at once, were placed in a crock in a back-yard, 

 where two white mice found one of them gaping open. 

 The mice inquisitively peeped in, which the oyster resented, 



