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On reaching the basin at the foot of King street, I noticed the 

 shores Hterally strewn with the dead bodies of these calamaries or 

 sea-arrows, as they are sometimes called. I was informed by 

 sailors on the wharf that between fifty and sixty barrels had been 

 gathered that morning, between tides, by Norwegian sailors. 

 They are considered good eating by many, although not used to 

 any extent in this direction in Canada. Captain Ross, an old 

 seaman and resident of St. John, who visited the harbour that day, 

 informed me that •' squid " is extremely rare in St. John harbour. 



Mr. Robert Chalmers, of the Geological Survey of Canada, 

 informs me that in 1886 a school of squids visited the passage 

 between Miscou and Shippegan Island, said to be chased by cod. 



Three specimens of this species from St. John Harbour were 

 secured by the writer and preserved in alcohol. They are now in 

 the National Museum, Ottawa. 



There were many persons in St. John who held the view that 

 the squid seen in the harbour that day had been chased by some 

 whale. — H. M. A. 



2. British American Echinqderms. 



During the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, in the Norts 

 Atlantic, a number of echinoderms were obtained in the dredgiing 

 which may help to throw light upon the doubtful form obtaned 

 by the writer in one ofthe calcareous nodules from the Pleistocene 

 clays of Besserers,* near Ottawa, and recently noticed by Sir 

 Wm. Dawson in the December issue ot The Ottawa Naturalist. 



In the Challenger report on the Echinodermata by Alex. 

 Agassiz, part g, 188 1, on page 201, Schizaster fmgilis is recorded 

 from " off the coast of Nova Scotia," and ou page 221 the same 

 species is also recorded from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



Strongylocentrotus Drobachiensts is recorded on page 211 from 

 the east coast of America, and is found most abundantly through- 

 out the shallows of the shores of the Maritime Provinces. 



Echinus acutus, Lamarck, was obtained off " Halifax " as 

 recorded on page i ^, whilst Echinus elegans, Dub. & Kov,, also 

 occurs there. 



Echinarachnius parmu, Gray, was collected off the coast of 

 Labrador. 



Echinarachnius par7na. Gray, and Strongylocentrotus Francis- 

 canus, A. Ag., on pages 216 and 212 respectively of the same 

 Challenger report, from the Pacific waters of the St. George's 

 Bank, Vancouver Island. — H. M. A. 



* " Note on an Echinoderm, etc." Ottawa Natur.^list, Vol. 13, No. 9, 

 pp. 201 — 203. December, 1899. 



