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their skin every year, or that the oyster grows to a large size in a very 
short space of time. 
Table 15. Oval-bodied crabs. 
Table 16. The fin-footed or swimming crabs, from different parts 
of the ocean. 
Table 1 7. The telescope or long-eyed crab ; the land crabs. 
Table 18. The square-bodied crabs ; the crested crab ; and the 
Chinese fin-footed crab. 
Table 19. The porcelain crabs; the corystes; the back-footed 
crabs ; and the death’s head crabs, which usually form for themselves a 
case from pieces of sponge or shell. 
Table 20. The Bernhard or hermit crabs, which live in shells ; 
the tree lobster, which is said to climb cocoa trees to get at the nuts. 
Table 21. The sea locusts or scyllarus ; the sea craw-fish. 
Table 22. The scorpion lobster, which lives a great part of its life 
on land, and destroys new made roads in India by the excavations it 
forms under them. The lobster ; one of the specimens exhibited was 
pale red, nearly of its present colour, when alive. The mantis crabs ; 
the different species of shrimps; the glass-like alima and phyllosoma, 
which are scarcely thicker than a piece of paper, and nearly as trans- 
parent as glass ; they are found in the ocean near the equator ; the king 
crab, with its long stile-like tail and large head. 
Tables 23, 24. The sea acorn ; whale lice ; barnacles, or goose 
shells, as they are called, from the extraordinary belief that they were 
the origin of barnacle geese. 
FIFTH ROOM. 
The Wall Cases. Molluscous and Radiated Animals and Crus- 
tacea in spirits, and the Nests of different kinds of Insects. 
Over the Wall Cases is a very large wasp’s nest from India; and 
some Neptune’s cups, a kind of sponge, from Singapore. 
Table Cases. Sponges of different kinds, showing their various 
forms and structure, and some preserved in flint, showing the same 
structure. 
JOHN EDWARD GRAY. 
Oct . 2671847* 
G. Woodfall and Son, Pi inters, An jel Court, Skinner Street, London. 
