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bottle itself appeared, from organisms attached to it, to have lain 

 in the sea for a considerable time. 



The black mud of the lower layer was rich in Ostracoda and 

 Foraminifera, but not so diversified in animal remains as the light 

 coloured upper portion, which contained the spines of echini, the 

 spines and jilates of star-fishes in great profusion, beside the 

 remains of other organisms of less frequency, as larval balani, the 

 limbs and plates of two crabs (Porcellana longicornis), fragments of 

 zoophytes, etc. Of the zoophytes, there were ten species met 

 with, so far as they could be made out. They were: — 



Endendrium ramosum. 

 Sertularia abietina. 



„ filicula. 

 Plumularia falcata. 

 Antennularia ramosa. 

 Cellularia scruposa. 

 Gemellaria loricata. 

 Membranipora membranacea. 

 Bowerbankia imbracata. 

 Lepralia. (1) 

 These species were all so fragmentary as to make it doubtful 

 whether any of them had ever lived in the bottle, with the excep- 

 tion of Bowerbankia, which was in very j)retty condition. 



Along with these were a number of fish bones, seemingly 

 belonging to the same animal. Some of the ribs that were attached 

 to a portion of the vertebrae were nearly as wide as the mouth of 

 the bottle, showing that the entrance was no more than sufficient 

 to admit a fish of that size. It is most likely that it got in alive 

 head foremost, and not having room enough to turn, and from the 

 smallness of the bottle's mouth, and the elevation of the fins, it 

 would be unable to get out backwards, and consequently perished 

 in the trap. 



The shells that had the appearance of having lived in the bottle 

 were all young, and in the black mud. They were: — 



Anomia ephippium, . . . . (Linn.) 



Pecten varius, . . . . . (Miiller.) 



Lucina flexuosa, (Brog.) 



Nucula nitida, (Lamk.) 



Cardium echinatum, . . . . (Linn.) 

 Mya truncata, (Linn.) 



