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Ostracoda of Britain/ but the Palaeontographical 

 Society cannot make room for it before next year. 

 I am sure I will be glad when it is off our hands. 



" For some time past I have been going into the 

 carboniferous ostracoda and foraminifera with con- 

 siderable success, and with less labour than the clays 

 required. At the same time I have another task on 

 hand, that is, a list of the ostracoda of the Firth of 

 Clyde ; and I also intend to make another of the lochs 

 of Scotland, and another of the canals of England, 

 Ireland, and Scotland. So you see that there is no 

 lack of work in store for me." 



In June of this year he arranged with G. S. Brady 

 to make a dredging excursion to the Scilly Isles. 

 Leaving Glasgow at 10 a.m. by express, he reached 

 Penzance next morning at 6 a.m., having only had 

 in this long ride a break of an hour and a half at 

 Birmingham. Brady joined him an hour or two 

 later. The steamer to the Scilly Isles was not due 

 to leave till six in the evening. 



In the interval the naturalists visited the Penzance 

 museum, which exhibits many fine minerals, but did 

 not show Robertson anything in his own special line 

 of work except some little shells from the tin stream 

 works. They were interested to observe that thus 

 early in the year the potato-fields in that neighbour- 

 hood had already been cleared, and sown with a fresh 

 crop. The bay also was a pleasant sight, being 

 crowded in the morning with a fleet of about three 

 hundred mackerel-boats. They were told that each 

 of these had a crew of eight, none of them boys, but 

 all strong men ; that they left in the afternoon and 



