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repair. They might no doubt be adapted to the purposes of a scientific workshop if 

 the locality were suitable in other respects ; hut the shore is an impossible one. 



We then steamed along the coast to Aripu, about 4 miles further north, where I 

 had been asked to examine an empty government bungalow. This had four large, 

 lofty rooms, a tine broad verandah and a large walled compound. Beside it were still 

 to be seen fragments of the ruins of the old Dutch fort, to which our countryman 

 Robert Knox made his way in 1G79, when he escaped from Anuradhapura, after 20 

 years' captivity in the hands of the King of Kandy. This bungalow, so far as the 

 house goes, could be made a perfectly siiitable residence and workshop for the marine 

 biologist were the locality suitable in other respects but it is not. 



At Aripu we visited the ruins of the " Doric," a classic structure often referred to 

 in the reports of the pearl fisheries, and which we had been using as a landmark. It 

 was built by Lord Guildford a century ago, as the official residence of the Governor 

 when he attended a fishery, but being unused it later on fell into ruins. It has 

 always served however as a useful and conspicuous object from which to take 



Fie. 8. The "Dori 



as it was at the beginning of last 



century from Cokdinku's plate. 



Fig. 9. The " Done " as it now is from a photograph 

 taken in February, 190:2. 



bearings on the pearl banks. The figures given here show (tig. 8) its original 

 appearance, from the plate in Cordiner's "Ceylon," 1807, and (fig. 9) its present 

 condition from a photograph I took in February, 1902, with Captain J. Donnan, C.M.G., 

 late Inspector of the Pearl Banks, in the foreground. 



In the evening (February 25) we put two tow-nets out, one near the bottom and 

 the other at the surface. The deeper net contained a large amount of the filamentous 

 red Alga? (Hypnea musciformis, Polysiphonia, &c), along with Molluscan and Annelid 

 larvae, Coscinodiscus, &c. 



The surface net had Coscinodiscus and 14 species of Copepods, including Calanopia 

 aurivillii, Metacalanus aurivillii, Ilyopsyllus affinis, and a new species of Peltidium. 



On February 26th, at 7 A.M., 2f miles south-south-west of Chilavaturai, the sea- 



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