THE ZooLocist—May, 1872. 3037 
A Cuttlefish at the Crystal Palace Aquarium.* 
By Evwarp Nrewmav. 
Tur Common Curtte (Sepia officinalis). 
(N.B. The length along the back, exclusive of the head, is 93 inches.) 
THE arrival of a living cuttle, a real Sepia officinalis, at the 
Crystal Palace Aquarium is an event that should be chronicled 
in the largest type and the most florid style that the ‘ Zoologist’ 
can command. Had I known prospectively of his advent I should 
probably have heralded his approach with an appropriate flourish 
of trumpets, still meaning ¢ype-ical trumpets; but the little 
stranger arrived quite unexpectedly from Plymouth, and I was 
only apprised of the event subsequently : he had not, like Thomas 
Campbell's events, cast his shadow before him, which phenomenon 
I have always thought must in a great measure depend on the 
direction in which events are travelling: I presume Thomas 
Campbell's were always retreating from the sun; if otherwise, 
_ they would have found their shadows invariably keeping in the 
* I ought perhaps to say that this admirably arranged Aquarium, which is under 
_ the superintendence of Mr. W. A. Lloyd, possesses several specimens of Octopus and 
Eledone in the most perfect health, but only this one of Sepia. Naturalists have now 
an opportunity, very rarely enjoyed, of studying the Cephalopods in their natural 
element. 
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