256 The Fishermen help Him.  [cwar. xiv. 
dead valve of Cyprina Islandica nine distinct species of 
shells, three different kinds of star-fish, and five separate 
sorts of zoophytes, besides worms and a number of other 
parasitical animals. Yet this is nothing to what is at times 
to be met with; and yet such things are, I may say, all but 
universally thrown away for no other or better purpose than 
that of being trod upon and destroyed. I will now, in order 
to show the truthfulness of my statement, enumerate a few 
of the objects which have thus been cast aside by those 
who had brought them on shore, but which were again 
picked up by my gleaners, and thereby redeemed, as it were, 
for a time from destruction, by being deposited in my col- 
lection—Anomia patelliformis, Circe minuta, Venus casina, 
Venus fasciata, Tellina proxima, Tellina crassa, Mangelia 
linearis, Pentunculus glycimeris, Psammobia tellinella, As- 
tarte compressa, Corbula nucleus, Hmarginula reticulata, 
~Thracia villosinsinla, Chiton lovis, etc., etc. 
“Now, I don’t say that these are all new species, but I 
say that they are among the rarest of our shells. The two 
first named are, if I mistake not, new, not only to us, but 
new to this northern part of the island. In works on con- 
chology, no mention is made of either having been previous- 
ly found on the shores of the Moray Firth, although they 
are not unfrequent on other parts of the British coast.” 
The fishermen of Macduff helped him greatly. Among 
the rare fishes caught by them were the sandsucker (Plates- 
sa limandaides) ; the small spotted dogfish (Scyllium cani- 
cula); the blue-striped wrasse (Labrus variegatus), a very 
rare fish; a specimen of the cuttle-fish (Loligo vulgaris), 
the length of which was four feet, with a splendid gladius 
of above fifteen inches long. In enumerating these fishes 
brought to him by the fishermen of Macduff, Edward ask- 
ed, “What are our own Banff fishermen and those of 
Whitehills about, that they never bring in any rare objects 
of this sort? Do they never get any thing attached to their 
lines worthy of notice—worthy of a place in a naturalist’s 
