GIAyTS AND PIGMIES. 



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(Nos. 1 and 2 above) arc represented not from Scotland, but 

 by specimens from an Old Red Sandstone Cemetery at 

 Restigouche River, New IJrnnswick. These are from the 

 collections of Mr. Ford presented by Dr. Sehvyn, director of 

 the Geological Survey of Canada. Oiants of the Old Red 

 Sandstone are the Crustacean Seniphim (so called) and the 

 Asteroh'[hs, of Strom ness. The fragments of the Crustacean of 

 Miller's collections in the hands of Agassiz airangcu thems'lvea 

 into a giant-form somewhat resembling a lobster, 4 A feet in 

 length. Prof. Huxley has described and figured this giant 

 and given it the name Pteryrjoius amjlints. The museum in 

 Dundee has the greatest nuiiiber of fragments, and a complete 

 giant in a flngstone from Ralrudjery, Forfarshire. AVe have 

 seen some large lobsters. One five feet in length from snout 

 to tail would certainly astonish. ^ small specimen has been 

 found at the Restigouche cemetery associated with the 

 Pterlclithys. It is to be remarked that the form of the 

 Crustacenn, and that of the fish liave some resemblance. Both 

 have wing-like ( Ptcro ^ paddles, projecting from either side of 

 the head. The bodies of tho Pferichihijs without the paddles 

 are puzzling to those who see them for the first time. Hugh 

 Miller likened them to turtles. Gesner regarded the Restigouche 

 ones as turtles. Until I saw the figures of Pterit'Jithijs inilleH, 

 Ag. in Miller's " Old Red Sandstone," I considered a small 

 specimen that I found in the stone dyke around tho " Standing 

 Stones of Stennis " as a sort of a crab. I would observe thai 

 these " stones' are regarded as a Druidical Temple. They are at 

 Loch Stennis in Orkney, not far from Stromness, Vvl. Miller's 

 "Old Red Sandstone." I visited the Orkneys and collected 

 Old Red Sandstone Fishes at Stromness and Orphir in 1842. 



6, In the "Foot-prints of the Creator" Miller observes 

 "(?ew. Asterolepu" " It is from the star-like tubercles by which 

 the cerebral plates were fretted that M. Eichwald bestowed on 

 the creature its generic name. The fish \yas carnivorous in its 

 ^abits. The size of the Asterolepis must, in the larger speci- 

 mens, have been very great. This oldest of Scottish fishes — 

 this earliest born of the Ganoids yet known — was at least as 



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