3680 Crustacea. 



zoologists. This list contains nearly one half of the species published 

 by Professor Bell in his ' History of British Crustacea,' and about thirty 

 of those to which, on account of their rarity or other peculiarities, he 

 has added special localities. When it is considered that the animals 

 here enumerated have been met with and collected within a short pe- 

 riod, from comparatively a small portion of the Moray Firth, and with 

 no fixed plan or proper apparatus, there is certainly held out to other 

 observers the promise of many additional rare and interesting species. 

 No doubt all the species now extant in this Firth, have been there for 

 ages past ; and the earliest haddock that lived in this arm of the sea, 

 like its representative of to-day, occasionally devoured the Calocaris, 

 and picked up the Aluana, long ere there were a Mc Andrew and a 

 Goodsir to get a glimpse of any of these still rare species ; and the 

 first lines of the fisherman that were shot from a boat into its waters, 

 even then drew up the rough Eurynome and the small Galathea : but 

 these treasures of the deep, like manj' a living gem to-day, were cast 

 away or fell into the abyss again, unnoticed and unknown. 



Their varied and oft-times very singular forms, the facility they af- 

 ford for preservation in the cabinet, the vast amount of information 

 that has yet to be acquired of their haunts and habits, and (when this 

 information shall have been in some measure attained) the fresh proofs 

 of the Creator's power, wisdom, and goodness, — proofs to be gathered 

 from the minutest parts of their multiplied organs, showing here, as 

 throughout the whole Animal Kingdom, when attentively examined, 

 a wondrous and beautiful adaptation to the functions assigned them 

 to perform, — these are some of the inducements to be held out for 

 the collection of specimens of this curious tribe of animals, and for the 

 further study of their economy, by those who have it in their power. 

 And there are few who do not possess this power, if they would but 

 use it. The search by the sea-shore, from the high- flood mark — where 

 the carapace, or the whitened skeleton of these denizens of the deep, 

 may often be found — down to the lowest ebb-line — where many a liv- 

 ing Crustacean may be caught, quietly ensconced in the crevices of 

 the rock, or sheltered among the sea- weed, waiting the return of the 

 tide, is the first and readiest mode of obtaining specimens by the be- 

 ginner. Then the fisherman's boat and his lines are to be narrowly 

 examined ; and, when fresh from the fishing- ground, they are often 

 found to yield new and interesting specimens. The fisherman him- 

 self, observing the interest excited by what has been by sheer acci- 

 dent brought ashore, will the more easily be induced to retain on board 

 and bring to land animals that he had long been accustomed to cast 



