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worth ^\ apiece, thougli they were not for sale, as they belonged to 

 Professor Fleming ; "but," said Sowerby, "why do you not go and 

 get some for yourself," and suggested that Jeffreys should have a 

 dredge made and try his fortune at Oban. The dredge was accord- 

 ingly made, and a place taken in the coach for Oban, it being before 

 the era of a railway ; but when he went to take his place inside the 

 coach he found it occupied by two irascible sportsmen, surrounded 

 by their shooting gear, who strongly objected to Jeffreys' dredge and 

 sieves and other impedimenta, wanted the inside space to them- 

 selves, and suggested that Jeffreys should go outside with his d^ — -d 

 sticks. Jeffreys refused, and insisted on space being found inside for 

 him and his belongings, and so the coach started with scarcely room 

 to move, and the whole journey was spent in wrangling and quarrelling, 

 each party when they wanted to move their limbs viciously kicking 

 the others' belongings out of the way with increasing violence. How- 

 ever, this unpleasant journey came to an end at last, and after 

 a fortnight's dredging Jeffreys found himself well rewarded with a 

 quantity both of Trichotropis and Terebrattda, of which he gave 

 Sowerby a handful of the latter in gratitude for his advice and as a 

 reward for his suggestion, and tiiese were afterwards retailed at lo/- 

 apiece. 



var. septentrionalis L. — This variety is nearly white, more 

 compressed, and more finely sculptured, but can easily be graduated 

 -from the type. Some writers, among them strange to say Dr. Davidson, 

 have regarded this as a true species on account of its possessing an 

 alleged epidermis; but the latter is in reality a sponge/ of which 

 several micro, species seem to particularly favour this shell. (See 

 Norman: A Month on the Trondhjem Fiord, Axxw. Mag. N. Hist., 

 Dec, 1S93, vol. xii.) 



T. septata Phil. — Shetlands So-gof., young, with T. cranium 

 (Jeffreys).^ In my previous notice of this species I recorded the fact 

 that "30 specimens were obtained in one haul of the dredge off the 

 Shetlands by the 'Porcupine,'- but I should have added that these 

 were not all available for science. Unfortunately at that time Gwyn 

 Jeffreys had had his share of the cruise, and had left the 'Porcupine,' 

 and there was no one in authority to guard the spoil, so that when 

 this particular dredging was emptied on the deck, the officers of the 

 ship gathered round and treated the "rubbish" (as they called it) 

 with much irreverence, finally kneeling round it, like boys at marbles, 

 and pelting each other with such treasures as T. septata, &c. It 

 does not seem to have been met with by the Scottish Fishery Com- 

 missoners during their researches, with the exception of three 



1 ]Moll. ' Lighming' aud 'Porcupine,' Pioc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 407. 



2 Adds, to " liiit. Conch.," /o«r«. of Couch. ^ 1894, vol. vii., p. 379. 



