the power of turning themselves inside cut, aud of 
making use of their tentacula as feet with which 
they creep along the ground, and on finding a con- 
venient place, of attaching themselves there firmly. 
(See zoantharia.) 

There are a number of beautiful children running 
about the garrison grounds at Port Royal. They 
look the picture of health and fustiness. “They do 
not suggest to the eye, the enervating influence of 
an Indian climate. They amuse themselves in the 
evening, filling bottles with the small shells they 
find cn the beach. Port Royal does not however 
present more than two shells worth looking after, the 
pearly curbo pica, that they sometimes clean and seil 
in thestreets,and the sprrula achambered cephalapod, 
never found perfect. ‘The fragmentary spiral on the 
beach are worth locking at attentively, fer the lenz 
diseussion which De Blainville has excited on the 
structure af the anima!, in his Afalacozaires. The 
“eephalic mass that filled the-outer cup of pearl, with 
the appendage that traversed the numerous empty 
chambers from one to the other into which it passed, 
is always torn away. I have never met with any body 
who has found the recent animal with the shell, A 
tubiform prolongation runs from the first chamber to 
the last, an extension no doubt of the columellar or 
retractor muscle. A person who has seen a shell 
of the’pearly nautilus pompilius cannot doubt that 
the organization of spirula must be perfectly similar. 
The animal would be discovered if those who had 
