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covered with innumerable clammy and glandulous hairs. In 

 the bud these hairs appear to cover the whole surface of 

 the flower, but when the corolla expands they seem to oc- 

 cupy the midrib of the petals as well as the tube of the co- 

 rolla. These glandular hairs are efficacious fly-catchers, but 

 what is their precise object, or the method of application, 

 Professor Bailey is at present unable to indicate. 5 D, Sep- 

 tember, 1874, 517. 



GIANT CUTTLE-FISH FOUND ON THE GRAND BANK, DECEMBER, 



1874. 



Some time since the discovery was announced by the Rev. 

 Mr. Harvey, of St. Johns, Newfoundland, of a giant cuttle- 

 fish off the coast of that island. We now learn from him 

 that a still larger one was cast ashore on the Grand Bank, 

 near Fortune Bay, in December last. The larger arms meas- 

 ured twenty-six feet each, with a circumference of sixteen 

 inches, the short arms beinor about one third that length with 

 the same circumference. The total length of the body w r as 

 fourteen feet. No portion was preserved excepting the beak 

 and one sucker, which is an inch in diameter. The fisher- 

 men carried it off as food for their dogs. The specimens 

 preserved will probably be sent to Professor Verrill, of Yale 

 College, for comparison with what he has of the first one. 



FAUNA OF THE CxlSPIAN. 



Professor Oskar Grimm has lately published an account 

 of the investigations made, under the direction of the Society 

 of Natural History of St. Petersburg, upon the fauna of the 

 Caspian Sea. The results of these had been extremely inter- 

 esting and rich, no less than eighty new species having been 

 discovered, and the total number known raised to 150. 



According to Professor Grimm, the Caspian appears as a 

 large, half-salt sea, possessing partly its own animal forms 

 and partly such as occur in other seas, the former being de- 

 scended from species still living or already extinct, or slight- 

 ly changed from foreign related species in other waters. The 

 species which occur in other seas are forms which possess 

 great tenacity of life, as they still manage to sustain exist- 

 ence, their former associates of less hardiness having died out. 



The faunal affinities of the Caspian are with the Sea of 



