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Majesties Council for the kingdom of Scotland,” which was 
read before the Eoyal Society, and published in its “Philo- 
sophical Transactions.” The shells are described as hanging 
from a fragment of a fir-tree, cast up on the island of East 
[Uist], by a pedicle “ not unlike the windpipe of a chicken,” 
which is not unnaturally regarded as a kind of suction apparatus 
for the withdrawal of nutriment from the tree. The shells are 
further stated each to be divided into five sections (see fig. 2), 
by “ cross seams or sutures,” and to have within them “ little 
Birds, perfectly shaped, supposed to be Barnacles.” 
Having traced this interesting story to the publications of a 
learned society, “nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri,” as 
