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most delicious, though I have never ventured on one 
myself. 
Occasionally I have had the good fortune to join a 
dredging party, and then specimens can be obtained 
which are not to be found on the sea-shore. Amongst 
the bivalves brought up in the dredge, one of the most 
interesting is the scallop. There are various members 
of the scallop family, Pecten maximus, the largest of 
them, however, is the one shown in the illustrations. 
The living scallop can sometimes be obtained from 
a friendly fisherman, but if you are desirous of examining 
this, as well as many other interesting specimens, a 
naturalist’s dredge is not an expensive apparatus, and 
can be worked from a small sailing boat. 
When you have got your scallop, place him in a 
basin of water, keep him in a cool, shady place, and 
if you frequently change the sea water, he will remain 
healthy and vigorous for a long time. We are most 
of us familiar with a scallop shell, the cook has served 
up many quaint dishes in it, and we have also seen it 
ornamenting the cottage window sill. Let us now 
examine the living specimen. 
I placed a really fine scallop on a rock in a large 
glass tank, through which I ran a constant supply of 
cool sea water from the storage tank used for the 
spawning ponds at Port Erin. The light was strong, 
and so for many hours he would not open, which gave 
me an opportunity for examining the numerous forms 
of animal life which had fixed themselves upon his 
