. 



CONTENTS. XV 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



PAGURTJS BERNHARDUS "HERMIT CRAB." 



Description of the animal. Summary ejectment. Structure of 

 the Hermit Crab. Ordinary habits of the Hermit Crab. 



p. 359-364 



CHAPTER XL. 



PALJEMON SERRATUS " THE PRAWN." 



A rhapsody on shrimps. Mr. Warington's observations. 

 Habits of the Prawn. Mode of exuviation. Acquirement of 

 new armour. Metamorphoses p. 365-375 



CHAPTER XLI. 



PINNOTHERE S T ALITRUS C OROPHIUM, ETC. 



Pinnotheres veterum, the Pea-crab " the Pinna and her Cancer 

 friend." Habits of Pinnotheres. Sea-spiders. Isopod and 

 Amphipod Crustaceans. Long-horned Corophium. Tube- 

 making Crustaceans. A word in favour of Natural History. 



p. 376-388 



CHAPTER XLII. 



CIRRIPEDES OR BARNACLES. 



Natural History in the sixteenth century. Old Gerrard. 

 Supposed origin of Barnacle Geese. Lepades and Balani. 

 Food of the Cimpedes. Singular mode of fishing. Propaga- 

 tion of Lepades. Appearance of nascent Cirripedes. Meta- 

 morphoses. Barnacle neither a duck-egg nor a gosling. 



p. 389-399 



CHAPTER XLIII. 



WHITBY. 



Legends of St. Hilda. Whitby Abbey. A ghost-story. 

 Zones of the ocean p. 400-406 



