220 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
If. OCELLINA. 
Genus XXIV. OCULINA. 
1. OcULINA PROLIFERA. 
Hab. Between the islands of Rum and HKgg, Dr. Fle- 
ming; Shetland, Mr. G. C. Atkinson. 
About ten years ago we sent to Dr. Johnston a specimen 
of coral from Norway, which he returned, named Oculina 
prolifera, saying that he was glad that it was found in Nor- 
way, as it gave hopes that it might be found in Orkney or 
Shetland. Soon after this I had the pleasure of hearing 
that a noble specimen of it, weighing six pounds, had 
been dredged in the Hebrides, and was in the possession of 
my much-valued friend Professor John Fleming. It occu- 
pies an honourable niche in his cabinet. It is worth trea- 
suring up and rejoicing over, and he showed it to me with 
no small gratification. By that time, however, I had a spe- 
cimen of my own, though I was constrained to acknowledge 
that it was not quite equal to his in magnitude. When, in 
the summer of 1850, I was on a visit at Mr. Cowan’s, Airds 
House, Appin, I called on Mr. M‘Millan, at Ardtur, for- 
merly the residence of the late Captain Carmichael, well 
known as a distinguished naturalist, and, looking round to ~ 
