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1. Observations on the Marine Zoology of North Uist, Outer Hebrides,—(Cœlenterata, Mollusca, Echinodermata, Gephyrea, and Pisces).*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

W. C. M'Intosh
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The surface of the island is less richly supplied with animal life than the ocean, and, indeed, with vegetable likewise. The grass is coarse and stunted, and even the hill tops are boggy; while the sea border has rich crops of Fuci, Laminarise, and other sea-weeds, and harbours hosts of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate. The inhabitants seem to take certain of the circumstances in which they are placed to the best advantage. Kelp is manufactured from the sea-weeds; the drift-wood makes the framework of their hovel roofs, and is applied, besides, to many other useful purposes; while fishing is universal. The soil, again, on the eastern side, with a single exception, is cultivated with neither vigour nor profit, the islanders having a tendency to be a pastoral and fishing, rather than an agricultural race.

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Proceedings 1865-66
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 5 , 1866 , pp. 600 - 614
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1866

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page 606 note * The rocks are for the most part composed of gneiss.

page 607 note * August 1865.

page 607 note † Dead.

page 609 note * Named after a zoological benefactress.

page 609 note † Rev. A. Norman, An. Nat. Hist., Feb. 1865. Professor Duns, however, intimated that a specimen of A. scutatum had been procured from Shetland since the above-mentioned period by the late Dr Fleming, and was now in the Free Church College Museum.

page 611 note * Quart. Jour. Micros. Soc, January 1865.

page 611 note † Named after Professor G. Busk, London.

page 613 note * Named after Professor Huxley, London.

page 614 note * In my diagnosis of this animal I was aided by Dr R. H. Traquair, who has recently published many valuable observations on the Pleuronectidæ, Linn. Trans.