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1870. — Gray : " Catalogue of the Sea-Pens or PennatulariidgD in the 

 Collection of the British Museum," pp. 12-13, adopts Verrill's 

 species (i<'. Forbes ii), and proposes a classification of his own, which 

 has not met with acceptance. 



1872. — Kolliker : "Anatoniisch-systematische Beschreibung der Alcyo- 

 narien. Erste Abtheilung : Die Pennatuliden." In this extremely 

 important and copiously-illustrated work a very full description 

 of the anatomy of FiuiicuUiKi, the only one that has yet appeared, 

 is given on pp. 250-201, and an excellent series of figures, all 

 original, on Plates XVI., XVII., and XVIII., Figs. 11.5, 148—154. 

 These figures show an entire young specimen of the natural size ; 

 enlarged views of various portions of the feather, showing the 

 arrangement of the polypes and zooids ; and more highly magni- 

 fied views of transverse sections of the whole I'achis and of a portion 

 of the stalk. All the drawings are, however, unfortunately taken 

 from specimens in which the tentacles are completely retracted, 

 and consequently do not represent correctly the appearance of 

 the polypes in the living state. In the letterpress, besides the 

 anatomical description, there is a very complete bibliography, 

 and a list of all the specimens and localities known to exist at 

 the date of publication. 



We are indebted to this work for many of the details incor- 

 porated in the present paper. 



1873.— Sir C. Wyville Thomson : " Depths of the Sea," pp. 149 and 

 178, describes dredging Finiiculi)ia in about 100 fathoms of water 

 in Raasay Sound, along the east coast of the Isle of Skye. The 

 specimens from this new locality were obtaiiied on September 

 13th, 1869, during the third cruise of H.M.S. " Porcupine." Their 

 capture is described thus: "The Pavunaruc (Fuiiiculiiuc) weve 

 resplendent with a pale lilac phosphorescence like the flame of 

 cyanogen gas ; not scintillating like the green light of Ophiacantha, 

 but almost constant ; sometimes flashing out at one point more 

 brightly, and then dying gradually into comparative dimness, but 

 always sufficiently bright to make every portion of a stem caught 

 in the tangles or stickmg to the ropes distinctly visible. From 

 the number of specimens of Pavonaria ( Funiculi lui ) brought up 

 at one haul we had evidently passed over a forest of them. The 

 stems were a metre (about 39ins.) long, fringed with hundreds of 

 polypes." 



We learn from Professor Herdman that during the third cruise 

 of the " Porcupine " Fuuiculiii(( was dredged at one other locality 

 besides the one just mentioned. Among the " Porcupine " stores 

 is a bottle containing one specimen of Fuiti(uli)ui, eight inches 

 long, and with the following label : " Porcupine, No. 54, 19-8-09. 

 303 fathoms. Bottom, stony." From the map illustrating the 

 third cruise of the " Poi'cupine,'"* and from the tables giving the 

 positions, etc., of the sevei'al dredging stationsf we And that 

 station 54, this new locality for F^uiiiculiiui, is in latitude 59° 50' N., 

 and longitude 0° 27 W., about midway between the island of Lewis 

 in the Hebrides, and Suderoe the southernmost of the Faroe Islands, 

 and in very nearly the same latitude as Bergen. This locality is of 

 considerable interest for many reasons : it is the most northerly 

 British locality recorded ; the depth (303 fathoms) is the greatest 

 from which living specimens have ever been obtained ; the bottom 



Thomson ; " Depths ot the Sea," Plate IV., !>. 100. t Ibid., p. Hi, 



