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I have never heard of its being found on the eastern shores, 
though in Shetland, Mr Goodsir and I found several in ten 
fathoms on Laminaria." Dr Carpenter, in the Third Edition 
of " The Microscope/' at page 583, in a foot note, states that 
it is found in Kirkwall Bay, Orkney. 
I am happy in saying, that although very rare, it is not 
altogether wanting on our eastern shores. During my 
residence at Peterhead (about three and a half years) , I met 
with but one specimen ; it was in the stomach of a fish, and 
although taken from such a situation (as may be seen by the 
specimen herewith sent), it was not much mutilated. 
In his " List of the Echinodermata of the Moray Firth," 
the Eev. George Gordon mentions having met with " a very 
mutilated specimen from the stomach of a haddock killed 
in the Moray Firth in 1850." 
Although I have looked out for them attentively here 
more than eight years), two only have come under my 
notice, one from the stomach of a fish, thus again showing 
the best star-fish hunters. Last summer I got the other 
out of a fishing-boat at Staxigo ; it was small and living, 
hooked to a shell. I kept it alive for a long time, and 
although it waved its arms about when disturbed, I never 
could perceive that it moved from the spot it was hooked to 
when I got it. It held on firmly by the claws of the filiform 
processes with its arms stifily held up, as w^ell represented 
by Gosse in his " Manual of Marine Zoology," vol. i., page 
63, fig. 93. I had this pretty object so placed that I could 
examine it with a powerful lens and see its very slow move- 
ments. It appeared to be very indolent ; it was about an 
inch from tip to tip of the arms. Unfortunately, in showing 
it to a friend, my finger slipped, and like most pets, it came 
to an ill end. 
A short time ago I had presented to me by Miss Miller, of . 
High Street, Thurso, a nice specimen of sponge, Halichon- 
dria palmata. It was taken in 1862, on a fisherman's line 
in the Pentland Firth ; fortunately it w^as carefully pre- 
served and left unwashed, with all its own juices, and the 
objects parasitical on it. (The specimen accompanies this 
paper.) On it is a fine family of Kosy Feather Stars, two 
