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centimeters long, with slender tentacular processes. This material was 
originally bottled in alcohol which had nearly all evaporated before 
examination, and the organism was not intact. The mud contained 
siliceous grains with occasional sponge spicules, &e., 
3. From a depth of 30 fathoms, about 15 miles E, N. E. (magnetic) 
from Flat Point, Sydney, C. B. 
a. Thin brachiopod shells, the largest about 28x22™m™, 
b. What suggested arborescent Polyzoan Zeecia, about 14™ high, 
the cylindrical spray of branches having a diameter of about 15™™, 
ec. A sheet of the eggs of a gastropod. 
4. From between 
lat. 43° 52’ N., lon. 58° 53’ W. in 500 fathoms, 
lat. 43° 533! N., lon. 58° 593’ W. in 858 fathoms, 
and lat. 43° 56’ N., lon. 59° 3’ W. in 170 fathoms. 
A coral, of the form of caryophilia, rising from a thin encrustation 
partly surrounding a pitch-covered cylinder (Cable) about 3°™ in dia- 
meter, with a stem about 1°™ at the base, gradually expanding until at 
a height of 4° it formed an elliptical cup-shaped corallite abou t 3.5¢™ 
and 4.5°™ in diameter, filled with numerous septae of unequal height, in 
one series. 
SixtH Orpinary MEstTINe. 
Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 9th April, 1900. 
The PresipeNt in the chair. 
The RecorpinG Secrerary read a communication from tne Royal 
Society of Canada, inviting the Institute to appoint a delegate to attend 
the nineteenth general meeting of the Society to be held at Ottawa on 
the 29th of May next. The communication was referred to the Council 
for action. 
Pror. Ernest Haycock of Acadia College, Wolfville, N. S., read a 
paper entitled : ‘‘ Records of Post-Triassic Changes in Kings County, 
N. 8.” (See Transactions, p. 287.) 
The subject was discussed by Dr. Girpin and Mr. McKay, and a 
vote of thanks was presented to the author. 
The Presipent, A. H. MacKay, Esq., Lu. D., read a paper on “ A 
Fresh-Water Sponge from Sable Island.” To this species Dr. MacKay 
proposed to give the name Heteromeyenia Macouni. The subject was 
illustrated by microscopic preparations. (See Transactions, p. 319). 
Proc. & Trans. N. S. Inst. Scr., Vou. X. Proc --E. 
