174 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



NOTES ON MARINE CRUSTACEA IN CONFINEMENT. 

 By Albert H. Waters, B.A. 



(Concluded from p. 57.) 



Although individual specimens were got from elsewhere, 

 every one of the species kept by me in aquaria have been 

 obtained from the eastern shore of the Wash — that is, from Hun- 

 stanton ; so that I may be said to be practically writing a list of 

 the Crustacea of that place, the fauna of which I have been 

 observing for forty years. Thirteen years ago I entered into 

 negotiations with the object of starting an aquarium close to the 

 beach, and hoped to make of it a marine laboratory of scientific 

 benefit. But the necessary outlay proved to be beyond my 

 slender means, and the design was abandoned — for a time, as I 

 hoped ; but unfortunately I have met with reverse after reverse, 

 and each has left me poorer than before, so that my project has 

 never been accomplished yet, and I have had to content myself 

 with such observations as I could make when visiting the spot 

 every summer, not earlier than the end of March, or later than 

 October. Yet, even with this more or less casual observation, I 

 have in my note-books a fairly complete list of the fauna of the 

 Wash, especially as it was before the place was so flooded with 

 visitors as it is now in the summer season. 



The bygone fauna of Hunstanton, in the days when it was a 

 coral-reef, I have described in the defunct ' Naturalists' World ' 

 for 1884. I have collected and studied the fossils of the red-and- 

 white chalk from the day I first went there as a boy, making 

 casts or rubbings of such as I was unable to get out of the hard 

 chalk. 



The fauna of to-day is very different from those old Cretaceous 

 times. The Brachiopods are no longer the prevailing Mollusca ; 

 Belemnites no longer dart about in the clear water ; and although 

 the bivalves are still well represented, it is by quite different 

 species. 



