i go The Naturalist of Cumbrae. 



" In the St. George's Channel at Millport I studied 

 the development of palaemon, crangon, lithodes, 

 portunus, and at last added most special researches 

 on mysis and cuma. I am happy to say that cuma 

 has furnished me with the material which seems to 

 justify me in bringing out a new theory on the 

 morphology and the homologies in the whole class 

 of arthropoda." 



At the illustrious station in the Bay of Naples 

 princes and professors, students and tourists, from all 

 parts of the world, pay the homage of their admira- 

 tion, curiosity, or research. From it have issued a 

 long series of works of high scientific importance. It 

 is, no doubt, to Dr. Anton Dohrn, Dr. Paul Mayer, 

 and one or two others, that its great success is chiefly 

 attributable, but one might be almost justified in 

 considering that Millport stands to it in the unassum- 

 ing relation of a fairy godmother. 



The first of the papers read before the Glasgow 

 society, of which it printed anything more than the 

 title, was called forth by what was supposed to be an 

 epidemic among four species of sea-birds the com- 

 mon gull, the common guillemot, the puffin, and the 

 razor-bill, which had come much further up the Firth 

 of Clyde than usual, strangely tame and ravenous for 

 food. "They were all in a wasted condition, being 

 almost reduced to skin and feathers, and were found 

 floating in thousands over a wide extent of sea from 

 the mouth of the river Clyde to the Irish coasts." 



The paper in question was entitled, " A report on 

 the mortality among the Clyde sea-fowl during the 

 month of September last, by Mr. David Robertson." 



