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drawings now brought forward were executed from living 

 specimens. 



The movement of this Beroe was stated to be less viva- 

 cious than that of the Cydippe pomiformis, and it is much 

 more susceptible of external injury. The long-continued 

 action of certain portions of the cilia, after the animal was 

 broken to pieces, was mentioned ; the variety of aspect pre- 

 sented by the tentacula described ; and the situation of cer- 

 tain whitish cords or vessels minutely detailed. The lobes 

 of the mouth were shown by the figures not to occupy more 

 than one-fifth of the entire length. The body is transparent, 

 and, when agitated in the dark, becomes highly luminous — a 

 property not possessed after death. 



In conclusion, the author enumerated the localities in 

 which it had been hitherto observed, and proposed some 

 brief specific characters by which it might be distinguished. 



Rev. Dr. Dickinson gave a verbal account of a remark- 

 able waterspout, which he had observed at Killiney during 

 the last summer. 



Towards the end of the month of July, about 10 a.m., 

 while standing on the shore of the bay of Killiney, his at- 

 tention was directed by a friend to a waterspout, distant 

 about a quarter of a mile from the land. It was not similar 

 in form to the representations of waterspouts usually given, 

 and may therefore deserve to be noticed. It was shaped 

 like a double syphon, the whole being suspended at a con- 

 siderable elevation in the air ; the longer end of the syphon 

 reached towards the sea, and appeared to approach it 

 nearer and nearer, till, at length, its waters were distinctly 

 seen rushing into the deep. The loop gradually lowered, as 

 if sinking and lengthening by its own weight, while the up- 

 per part of the syphon seemed not to lose in elevation. At 

 length the loop burst, and there were three streams of water 

 pouring into the sea, two of those streams still continuing 



