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Dame and authority of Captain Dixon,* dated Montague 

 Island (Prince William Sound) May 13, 1787. the follow- 

 ing passage occurs: "I should not omit that one of our 

 people, in fishing with hook and line, caught a very remark- 

 able object, which I suppose to be a species of polypus : it 

 seemed to be both of an animal and vegetable nature, and 

 adhered to a small switch about three feet long." 

 Paragorgia. (Nov. Sp. ?) A living example of a large and 

 multitudinously branched, spreading species of Paragorgia 

 was purchased by Mr. Richardson in 1875 from some fisher- 

 men, who informed him that it was brought up on one of 

 their lines from a depth of about ten fathoms in Jervis Inlet. 

 A portion of one of the branches and a photograph of the 

 specimen have been sent to Prof. Verrill, who thinks that 

 the species is closely allied to the Paragorgia arborea of the 

 Northern Atlantic Coast, but that it is probably new to 

 science. 



ECHINODERMATA, 



Opliioglypha Lutkeni? Lyman. Two brittle stars which seem 

 referable to this species, were dredged by Mr. Richardson 

 in two different localities in the Strait of Georgia in 1875. 



Cribrella Iceviuscula. Stimpson. Strait of Georgia, two living 

 specimens: J. Richardson, 1874. 



Pycnopodia helianthoidea, Brandt. (Sp.) Creeping on stones 

 near low water mark at the entrance to Deep Bay, V. I.; 

 J. Richardson, 1875. 



Asterias epichlora ? Brandt. Low water near Victoria, V. I. ; 

 J. R., 1874. Rays five, very long and slender, disk small. 

 Greatest diameter, from the extreme points of two opposite 

 rays, sixteen inches : breadth of disk, scarcely two inches. 

 Dorsal spines short, cylindrical or subclavate, truncated at 

 their summits, rather sparse, and forming distinct but ir- 

 regular reticulations. Ventral spines much longer and more 

 crowded. 



* A Voyage round the World, but more particularly to the North 

 West Coast of North America, performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 

 in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon. 

 By Captain George Dixon. London, 1789. Page 148. 



