Radiala — Mollnsks. 



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found, to my astonishment, a small shore crab (Carcinus mcenas), about the size of a 

 silver fourpence, cosily ensconced near the folds of the gills. Neither the mollusk nor 

 the crustacean appeared the better for this abnormal close connection, the former 

 being greatly emaciated and its shell full of water, while the latter, although plump, 

 seemed feeble and incapable of motion : its shell was leathery, and lacked the usually 

 calcareous nature,— caused in all probability by its living entombment. The crab 

 survived its release several days. — W. R. Hughes; the General Hospital, Birmingham, 

 November 10, 1862. 



Occurrence of the Sand Pintlet (Halicampa chrysanthellum) at Banff. — In Mr. 

 Gosse's beautiful work on a beautiful tribe, the British sea-anemones, the only 

 locality mentioned for the above worm-like species is Cornwall. I beg to say that 

 they are to be found here. Two were procured a short time since, and although 

 sickly and evidently dying, — having been dislodged from their homes and dashed on 

 shore by the waves of a tempestuous sea, — still I managed to keep them alive the 

 greater part of three days. During this period I had the pleasure of seeing them fre- 

 quently expand their little star-like disks. Of course I have them preserved ; but 

 alas! their beauty is gone for ever. — Thomas Edward; Banff, January 5, 1863. 



Trans- Atlantic Sketches. — No. h On the Little Miami River, 

 Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio. 

 By J. F. Whiteaves, Esq., F.G.S., &c, &c. 



It is a sultry afternoon in the latter end of July, as we leisurely stroll 

 from our little village hotel in the "buck-eye" State, the thermometer 

 at from 90° to 95° in the shade. We have been watching the ruby- 

 throated hummingbird hovering over the flowers of the trumpet-creeper 

 at the end of the verandah. Into the village street, shaded by "trees 

 of heaven," locust trees and the beautiful Indian bean, with its pods 

 fully a foot long. Along a dusty turnpike road, running parallel or 

 nearly so, with the little Miami river, our main object being to collect 

 the Unionidae of that stream. On one side of the road, fields of Indian 

 corn stretch down to the river; opposite to these are hills, partly cul- 

 tivated, partly woodland, crowned with large peach orchards. The 

 commonest road-side weeds here are Mentha viridis, the cosmopolite 

 Anthemis cotula, Scrophularia nodosa, Vernonianoveboracensis, Datura 

 stramonium, Phytolacca decandra, Verbena hastata, V. urticifolia, Am- 

 brosia artemisiaefolia, and Cynoglossum Morisoni. When just outside 

 the town, we strike a short distance up the hill into a friend's garden 

 to examine a nest of the American goldfinch (Chrysomitris tristis). 

 It is built in a fork of a peach tree, and in its construction closely 

 resembles that of the European species, the lining of the nest in each 



