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PRIAPULACE.E. 



The Priapulus was first observed on the British shores 

 by Dr. Fleming, who found it in the Zetland seas in 1810, 

 and his specimen was no less than six inches long. Mr. 

 Goodsir and I found it in the same locality in 1839 ; we 

 dredged it in seven fathoms water, among Laminarise, in 

 the Sound of Bressay, opposite Lerwick. Our specimen 

 was three inches and a half in length. Dr. Coldstream 

 has taken it in two localities very distant from each other, 

 namely, Leith, and the coast of Devon. Captain Portlock 

 has added it to the Irish fauna ; he dredged it in Belfast 

 Bay. Abroad it inhabits the seas of Norway and of 

 Greenland. 



The vignette represents the entrance to the Kyles of 

 Bute. 



