360 The Naturalist of Cumbrae. 



surface-nets drying in the sun, or to some other 

 apparatus of the master's craft. 



Inside, the dining-room is hung round with pleasant 

 pictures, all or most the gifts and work of one who is 

 at once a skilled artist and an affectionate son. On 

 the staircase is a cabinet of rare corals. In the library, 

 besides many valuable books on natural history, there 

 are other cabinets full of marine treasures in the finest 

 order. Here, among the shells may be seen Lima 

 hians in its nest. Here are strange crabs, and fine 

 sea-urchins, and uncommon star-fishes. Here too are 

 elaborate type-slides of ostracoda and foraminifera. 



In the store-room is a great collection of amphipods 

 and cumacea, pennatulae, virgulariae, copepoda, an- 

 nelids, nudibranchs, and sea-anemones, with various 

 other creatures, rare or strange, or otherwise worth 

 preserving. Elsewhere are stored up bags of clay, 

 waiting to be rifled of their organic contents,, when, 

 if ever, the incessant calls upon the industry of the 

 owner give them a chance. 



Amidst these treasures, which avarice will not envy, 

 and which moreover are ever at the service of those 

 who can use them to good purpose ; amidst these 

 scenes of natural beauty, which likewise are open to 

 all who can choose to visit Millport, David Robertson 

 continues, and may he long continue, his peaceful and 

 honoured life. 



One in old times is said to have risen from being 

 a swineherd to be Pope of Rome, ascending from a 

 position as humble as any that there is in European 

 society to one which in those days topped all others 

 by its singular and conspicuous pre-eminence. In 



