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Torpeda oculata. — Blood from heart : long diatneter of the corpus- 

 cles about 1-800 ; short diameter 1-1000. Some further particulars 

 have been given respecting them in a paper deposited in the archives 

 of the Royal Society. 



Spigota (Perca marina). — Blood from vessels of gills : long dia- 

 meter of corpuscles from 1-4000 to 1-3750 ; short diameter 1-4000. 



Pylamedes {Thynnus Pylamedes). — Long diameter of corpuscles 

 about 1-2000; short diameter about 1-3000. 



A small species of Mackerel, corpuscles 1-22S6 by 1-4000. Taken 

 from the heart ; oil particles four times as large were mixed with the 

 red particles. 



A small fish ; species of it I have not yet made out; corpuscles about 

 1-4000 to 1-3000, by about 1-6000. 



Another species I have not yet made out; particles about 1-3000 

 by 1-4000. 



Another small species, not made out ; particles, most of them cir- 

 cular, about 1-4000 ; a fevi^ elliptical. 



SM>orrf-/s7j.— Particles, long diameter, from 1-2000 to 1-3200; 

 short diameter, 1-3200 to 1-5333. 



RedMullet. — Many particles circular, about 1-4000; some ellip- 

 tical, about 1-2286 by 1-3200. 



John Dory. — Corpuscles 1-1777 by 1-2666 ; some nearly circular. 

 A species of large Mackerel; corpuscles about 1-2000 to 1-2666, 

 by about 1-4000. 



Small spotted Dog-fish. — Corpuscles about 1-1333 by 1-2000. 

 Sturgeon. — Corpuscles about 1-1600 by 1-2666. 

 Scualus acanthias, — Corpuscles about 1-1231 by 1-1777 ; nucleus 

 elliptical. 



Brown spotted Dog-fish. — Corpuscles from 1-1000 to 1-1143, by 

 1-1600 to 1-1455. 



Tunny (Thynnus communis). — Corpuscles 1-1600 by 1-2666. 

 Eel, species I have not made out; corpuscles about 1-2000 by 

 1-3200 ; a few circular. 



A species of small fish I have not yet made out ; corpuscles about 

 1-2666 by 1-4000. 



A species of Scyllium, a cartilaginous fish, probably a new species. 

 I have sent a specimen to Chatham. Corpuscles about 1-1000 by 

 1-2000. 



In a female of the šame kind some of the blood-particles were as 

 large as 1-666 by 1-888; nucleus about 1-2666 and globular. 



Fcetus oi Sgualus acanthias; corpuscles about 1-1000 by 1-1600: 

 fcetus about seven inches long. 



Fcetus of Squalus sguatina, about six inches long ; corpuscles about 

 1-1000 by 1-1333. 



Small fish ; I have not yet made out the species ; corpuscles about 

 1-2000 by 1-2666. 



Another small fish, the kind of which is at present unknown to me; 

 corpuscles about 1-2666 ; the majority of them circular. 



These are the results of the few observations I made in Constan- 

 tinople. Not having books to refcr to, I could not at the timc deter- 



