146 CHARLES HEDLEY. 
escaped. The bottom at the locality was a clean shelly sand, the 
depth about three fathoms. 
29th. I spent this day in the city, examining Wilcox’s collec- 
tion. That gentleman gave me some curious accounts of some 
naturalists whom I had long known by reputation, but did not 
dream of finding 7x propria persona in this part of the world. He 
informed me that Macleay, the originator of the “circular theory” 
of classification in natural history, was now residing at this place, 
and that Swainson, * who carried out that theory so fully in zoology 
(see his works in Lardner’s Cyclopedia) was now wandering in 
these parts, poor and neglected, though still hopelessly moping 
over zoological subjects, though old and past active and useful 
labor in the field of science. As I listened to Wilcox’s account 
the conceit entered my mind that these two men were banished, 
as it were, from the scientific world of the Atlantic shores, for the 
great crime of burdening zoology with the false though much 
labored theory which has thrown so much confusion into the 
subject of its classification and philosophical study. In the after- 
noon I visited the officers of a new French clipper ship now lying 
in this port, by whom I was treated with the extreme politeness 
so characteristic of Frenchmen, which contrasts so strongly with 
the selfish and often contemptuous silence of Englishmen when 
meeting gentlemen having no formal introduction, and with the 
awkwardness of Americans in a similar situation. This night I 
spent ashore at the Royal Hotel, where I met two or three gentle- 
men from Boston, one of whom had resided in Cambridge, close 
to my father’s residence. 
30th. To-day I had an opportunity of examining the shores 
of the harbor at a low spring tide. I investigated chiefly at 
Garden Island. The species of invertebrata obtained were too 
numerous to catalogue here, (for full descriptions or notices see 
notes). The Ophiuridae were large, and behaved with an activity 
which was to me quite astonishing. Some of the Ascidians were 
1 Swainson, See Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxvi, p. 796, and Vict. Nat., 
REY, p. 113. 
