The Zoologist — November, 1873. 3751 



I used to pick off the shells with never-wearying patience and care, and 

 drop them into the fictitious sea-water and transfer them to my hottle, to 

 which they adhered and made themselves happy. I used to feed them with 

 little morsels of oyster-flesh which I found adhering to the inside of the 

 shells, and when the water would become offensive from the effects of the 

 food, because the quantity of fluid was too small to hold enough oxygen iu 

 solution to decompose the dead animal matter fast enough, I poured the 

 water from the little bottles into a great earthenwai'e foot-pan covered with 

 a sheet of glass to keep out dust, and standing in a dark comer of the room. 

 The foot-pan was so very large in comparison with my small bottles that 

 the emptying of them periodically into the pan did not interfere with the 

 water in the latter, so that from it I immediately refilled the bottles, one at 

 a time on successive days. The water in the foot-pan on the floor thus 

 effectually counteracted all tendency at going wrong in the bottles on the 

 window-sill above." 



Two years after this, namely, in 1854, Mr. Lloyd sent me two 

 short papers for the ' Zoologist,' which show that his love for sea 

 things continued in all its force. These exhibit beyond all question 

 the deep, and I may almost say, the devout attention, with which 

 he studied Nature at this period : his " Note on the Habits of 

 Liranea stagnalis" (Zool. 4248) is a master-piece of descriptive 

 writing. Of course I was anxious to know such a man, and in 

 March, 1855, I found him located at 164, St. John-street-road, in 

 company with poverty and sea anemones, sacrificing all worldly 

 considerations to a love of Science. Other papers soon followed, 

 intituled severally "Occurrence of Edwardsia vestita in Britain" 

 (Zool. 5180) and" Note on a Sea-Cucumber in Confinement" (Zool. 

 5181). These exhibit in an especial degree three great qualifica- 

 tions of a naturalist — 1st, the knowledge which leads to the instant 

 selection of what is peculiarly worthy of observation ; 2ndly, the 

 faculty of observing systematically, or in the words of De la Beche, 

 the knowledge " how to observe"; and SrdJy, the power of defining 

 the observations: these qualities Mr. Lloyd possessed and possesses 

 in an eminent degree. I have never forgotten, and hope never to 

 forget, that first visit to the great aquarian and the appearance of 

 his little aquariums; glass bottles or cylindrical vessels, some on 

 the table, some on the window-sill, some in the dark, some in the 

 light, — all contributing to his already large stock of knowledge, all 

 revealing secrets previously hidden. 



In 1856 he removed to Portland-road, and embarked in business ; 

 as a matter of course, the aquarium business, — and almost also as 



