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Seals and eight Bottle-nose Whales, thus making a very successful 

 voyage. It is believed that fourteen vessels belonging to British 

 owners, in addition to the Dundee sealers, left St. John's Harbour 

 on the 10th March. 



Only eight of the thirteen Scotch vessels which sailed for the 

 northern sealing voyage were successful, the total take being 22,142 

 Seals, against 23,894 in the season of 1881; but as the Norwegian 

 vesse's took even more Seals than our own, it is probable that the 

 whole brood was destroyed, and that, had more ships been present, 

 it would only have resulted in a lower average. 



The old Seal-fishing in April is reported to have been a perfect 

 failure, partly owing to the weather, and partly to the heavy ice 

 being surrounded by thin bay-ice, which prevented the boats from 

 getting near the Seals. 



The Dundee vessels, nine in number, which went on to Davis 

 Straits in search of Right Whales, were rewarded with 78 of these 

 valuable monsters, which produced 770 tons of oil and 582 cwts. 

 of bone, which, with oil at .£33 per ton and bone at £1150 per ton, 

 would yield a return of £58,876. 



The notable feature in the fishery of 1882 was the capture of a 

 large number of Bottle nose Whales, Hyperoodon rostratum, 463 

 of these animals having been secured by the Scotch vessels alone. 

 203 of these fell to the lot of the "Eclipse;" and the cargo was 

 estimated to yield something like 230 tons of Bottle-nose oil, which 

 has been proved to be little if at all inferior to true sperm oil, being 

 worth about £60 per ton. It is to be feared that their value 

 having become fully known, it will in future go hard with the 

 Bottle-noses. A considerable number of these Whales were also 

 taken by the Norwegian fleets. 



II. — The Heteroecism of the Uredines. By Mr. Robert Turner. 



As some considerable time has elapsed between the reading of the paper 

 and its publication, a few notes have been added. — R.T., August, 1884. 



We have long been aware that many of the parasitic entozoa of 

 man and brute, after living for a time in one creature, transfer 

 themselves and their havoc to another. To understand the object 

 of migration in the case of these parasites is not very difficult. 

 The living morsels lie patiently await in some animal likely to be 



