[5°"1 : the Newhaven fishermen, andsomelimes accompanied them when they trawled for oysters, and thus got many spei:imens. But from not having had any regu l wretched microscope my attempts were very poor. Nevertheless I made on interesting little discovery, and read aboulthe beginning Dr Grant took me occasionally to the meetings of the Wernerian Society. where various papers on natural history were read, discussed. and after published in the Transcuuons. I heard Audubon· The society was founded in 1823. and expired about 1148 (Edinburgh Wttkly of the Committee of of Education, 1839-49: member of the scientific comminions, etc. - of Tht Birds of

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the Newhaven fishermen, andsomelimes accompanied them when they trawled for oysters, and thus got many spei:imens. But from not having had any regu l wretched microscope my attempts were very poor. Nevertheless I made on interesting little discovery, and read aboulthe beginning Dr Grant took me occasionally to the meetings of the Wernerian Society. where various papers on natural history were read, discussed. and after published in the Transcuuons. I heard Audubon· The society was founded in 1823. and expired about 1148 (Edinburgh Wttkly of the Committee of of Education, 1839-49: member of the scientific comminions, etc. - of Tht Birds of

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[5°"1 the Newhaven fishermen, andsomelimes accompanied them when they trawled for oysters, and thus got many spei:imens. But from not having had any regu lar practice in dissection, and from possessing only a wretched microscope my attempts were very poor. Nevertheless I made on interesting little discovery, and read aboulthe beginning of the year 1826, a short paper on the subject before the Plinian Socy. This was that the so-called ova ofFlustra had the power of independent movement by means of cilia, and were in fact larvae. In another short paper I showed that littJe globular bodies which had been supposed to be the young state of FUCtlS iOTeus were the egg-cases of the worm-like Pontobthlla muncala.