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and are very shy, and they have ample space in which to 

 escape. 



Another method which he adopted for investigating the 

 fauna in this region, which was especially successful in the 

 case of some of the larger Cephalopoda, was to examine the 

 stomachs of Cetacea which fed at these intermediate depths. 

 The Prince tells us this new instrument gave him the most 

 remarkable animals in his collection. One of these, Lepidoteu- 

 this grimaldii, is the type of a new family. This was vomited 

 during the dying struggles of a sperm whale, and unfortunately 

 it had lost its head and arms. The fragment was about one 

 yard long, and the complete body of the animal must have 

 been at least seven feet in length. With the arms added it 

 must have been a monster of colossal strength. Another 

 immense cuttlefish, a Cucioteuthis, had arms as strong as a 

 man's, and carried suckers furnished with claws as powerful 

 as those of a tiger. In 1904 the Prince delivered a paper before 

 the Royal Institution in which he again gave many fascinating 

 examples of his investigations into the fauna of the deep sea. 



In later years the Prince made many investigations in the 

 Arctic regions, and here, as on his other journey, nothing 

 seems to have escaped his notice. For instance, he records 

 in 1907, when the Princess Alice was much hindered by quan- 

 tities of ice and by fog, that the autochrome plates of the 

 Lumiere Company developed a blue veil over their surface 

 at about latitude 69° 40' N., which increased in intensity 

 up to the highest point he attained, 79° N. On returning south 

 this blue veil faded away as slowly as it had arisen. 



The Prince has left a permanent memorial of his work 

 in the Oceanographical Museums which he built and endowed 

 both at Monaco and in Paris. The opening of the former was 

 a memorable occasion. Representatives of many foreign 

 states were entertained for a period extending over four days. 

 The museum is a magnificent structure consisting of many 

 floors. The roof, which is some eighty-seven metres above 

 the sea level, forms a meteorological observatory. There are 

 two magnificent halls, one of which is used for meetings and 

 conferences, and the other is occupied by a collection of appar- 

 atus used in oceanography, and of a number of specimens 

 and other marine treasures collected by the Prince. We 

 venture to quote here, from the pages of Nature, an account 

 of the museum written at the time of its opening by a close 

 personal friend of the Prince, one who had made many voyages 

 with him : 



" The museum and the vessels attached to it, with their staffs and general 

 organisation, are only one-half of the great enterprise which is entitled, 

 * Institut Oceanographique Fondation Albert I Prince de Monaco.' Its 



