440 



E. i;ay lankester. 



I tlierefore made in(|nirieSj and found that the specimens 

 dredged by the "Porcupine " in 1869-70_, referred to by Lord 

 Avebury^ were still in the possession of my old and valued 

 friend the Eev. Canon Norman^ F.R.S.; who had in 1873 

 published a description of them. It is a very short one^ 

 without figures^ and remains the only account we have of 

 these remarkable specimens. Canon Norman at once placed 

 the specimens in my hands (in November, 1902). I found 

 them to be too small for public exhibition. Canon Norman 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 1. — Bore my sis obtusata, G. 0. Sars. 315 to 2710 

 faUioms. "Eyes iionnal," Sars, ' Scliizopoila,' pi. xxxiii, (ij^. 2. 



Fig. 2. — Boreomysis mi crops, G. O. Sars. Female, X 6. 

 1250 fathoms. Eyes of smaller size. Sars. ' Scliizopoda,' pi. xxxiii, 

 tig. 7. 



also gave me the beautiful drawings of the specimens made 

 twenty-five years ago by the late Mr. Albany Hancock, which 

 are now at last published, forming the plates accompanying 

 this article (Pis. 33 and 34). He also furnished me with 

 references to the published notices of the specimens of 

 Cymonomus (Ethusa), with more or less modified eye-stalks, 

 as well as Avitli references to the literature of the genus; and 

 whilst urging me to undertake the writing of notes to accom- 

 pany a publication of the drawings — a task which he did not 



