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where Mrs. Jarrett was boiling the kettle and frying the 

 fresh herrings for tea, agreeing as we went that there was 

 no place like Puffin, and no pursuit so delightful as marine 

 biology. It is not, as some think, only in the height of 

 summer that the biologist can carry on his field work. 



We brought back collections of various groups which 

 have been distributed to our specialists. A small bag of 

 matted algae and mud from low-water mark has yielded 

 Mr. Archer 16 species of the smaller mollusca, including 

 Pecten similis, Rissoa parva var. interrupta, lilssoa semi- 

 striata (new to the district), Chemnitz/' a elegant issima, Jef- 

 reysia opalina, and Phasianella pullus. 



It is perhaps worthy of record here that we have found, 

 half hidden in the soil on the S.W. corner of the Island, a 

 slab of stone marking the grave of a sailor who was buried 

 there a century and a quarter ago. The inscription is now 

 only partially legible, but Mr. Thompson found in the 

 Linnean Society's Library a copy of an old work giving an 

 account of excursions in this part of Wales, made in 1798 

 and 1801 by the Eev. W. Bingley, F.L.S., in which occur 

 the following passages about Puffin Island : — " Tradition 

 respecting Priestholme says that when the now Lavan 

 Sands formed a habitable part of Carnarvonshire a bridge 

 communicated across the channel, and they yet pretend 

 to show the remains of an ancient causeway from there to 

 Penmaenbach, near Conway, for convenience of devotees 

 who made pilgrimages to the Island;" and "On the 

 Island I found an upright stone with the inscription — 



Bare. Stout, 



belonging to the 



Salley, died in 



the small pox 



Nov. ye 3rd, 1767. 



N.B. — The ship was cast 

 away here." 



