This animal, otherwise called the Limulus, or king crab, so common to onr eastern coast, is not at all known in Europe except from the specimens and descriptions that havo been sent over, and is one of the first animals that shows the naturalist from the.Eastern that he is in the Western hemisphere.
This article was originally published with the title "The Horse-Shot Crab" in Scientific American 13, 17, 132 (January 1858)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican01021858-132d
