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in company with Harry Goodsir, on the east sands of 

 St. Andrews Bay. One was the Beroe pileus that had 

 been imperfectly described by Grant in the Zoological 

 Transact ions of 1831 ; the other was new, and after- 

 wards described by Forbes to the Eoyal Society of 

 Edinburgh. Goodsir entered fully into the anatomy 

 of these animals, particularly the Cilia, exhibiting 

 drawings on a large scale of those interesting organs 

 discovered by Sharpey, Purkinje, and Valentin. 



To the " Cupar Literary and Antiquarian Society," 

 in November 1838, Mr. Goodsir submitted a list of ani- 

 mals collected, preserved and catalogued by his brother 

 If any, that had been drawn up from living individuals 

 gathered upon a surface of land and sea stretching one 

 mile round AnstrutlnT. The collection of a set of docu- 

 ments — zoological, botanical, meteorological, and anti- 

 quarian — Mr. Goodsir considered to be peculiarly the 

 duty of a county philosophical association, and more 

 consistent with the spirit of its constitution and the 

 situation of its individual members, than any other kind 

 of scientific labour. 



In the spring of 1839, Mr. Goodsir read a paper to 

 the St. Andrews Literary and Philosophical Society on 

 certain peculiarities in the eye of the CejihalojwcJo'is 

 Molluscs, basing his observations on the cuttle-fish. The 

 firsl peculiarity, or exposed condition of the lens, con- 

 sidered so anomalous by biologists, In' lid. I to have 

 been common at ;i former period of animal existence, 

 with nautili, ammonites, baculites, etc. Ee Looked to 

 tlir embryonic life of vertebrate animals \\>\- an 



