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Sect, XL] 



ZOOLOGY. 



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undatm was brought sticlcing to timber from the West- 

 India islands into Liverpool, and is now nat^xialized in 



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the woods near that town. TLe author possessed 

 specimens of Bidinus rosaceusy which had been brought to 



England by Captain King and Lieutenant Graves, R.N.j 



from Chiloe, and were in full vigour, thongh the animals 

 had been packed up in cottOHj with the collection of shells, 

 one for eighteen months^ and another for two years. lie 

 now possesses one in good healthy brought h^- 

 Cuming, which had been packed up for a 1 

 Testacelbts and other 

 viously. 



" By strict attention to changing the sea-water, which 

 very soon becomes unfit for respiration when put into a 

 vessel, marine conchifera^ moUusca^ and Crustacea mio'ht 

 be brought home alive, and an 



had been imported pre 



opportunity given of 



studying their organization much more satisfactorily than 

 can be done by a mere post-mortem examination, 



" The land-crab of the West Indies has been brought 

 over with success. A pair of them were exhibited, in fall 

 vigour, for a few weeks at the end of ^summer, in one of 

 the enclosures open to the air, at the Zoological Gardens," 



should always be accompanied 



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Specimens of Fossils 



with part of the rock in which they occur, whether stone 

 clay, or sand, &c. 



All fossils, without exception, may be brought home, in 

 large number and ([uantity. 



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ditiou as to freshness or decomposition ; whether they 

 resemble those of the adjacent coast or seas ; the mode of 

 their occurrence : whether rcgularlv interstratified with 



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