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MICROSCOPICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SECTION. 
November 4th, 1867. 
J. Sidebotham, Esq., in the Chair. 
The Rev. J. E. Yize showed and presented to the section 
four specimens of insects beautifully mounted in balsam by 
himself. 
Mr. Sidebotham read the following “ Note on the Ship- 
barnacle.” 
On the 28th of September I was at Lytham with my 
family. The day was very stormy, and the previous night 
there had been a strong south-west wind, and evidences of 
a very stormy sea outside the banks. Two of my children 
came running to tell me of a very strange creature that had 
been washed up on the shore. They had seen it from the 
pier and pointed it out to a sailor, thinking it was a large 
dog with long hair. On reaching the shore I found a fine 
mass of barnacles, Pentalasinus anatifera, attached to 
some staves of a cask, the whole being between four and 
five feet long. Several sailors had secured the prize, and 
were getting it on a truck to carry it away. The appear- 
ance was most remarkable, the hundreds of long tubes with 
their curious shells looking like what one could fancy the 
fabled Gorgon s head with its snaky locks. 
The curiosity was carried to a yard where it was to be 
exhibited, and the bellman went round to announce it 
under the name of the sea lioness, or the great sea serpent. 
