794 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [8] 



115. Charles Colby, Gloucester. Starfish (Hippasteria plirygiana) 

 and two pipe-fish (Syngnathus, sp.), taken 8 miles oft' Eastern Point, Cape 

 Ann. 



116. Crew of sch. Carl Schurz. Two specimens of jointed bush-coral 

 (Acanella Normani) and a Ghimcera plumbea, ?, from 30 miles south of 

 Sable Island, 300 fathoms. 



117. A young - green turtle (Chelonia my das), from off Sable Island. 



118. Benjamin Clark, sch. Water Spirit. Vase-shaped sponge 

 (Phahellia), from eastern part of Brown's Bank, 300 fathoms. 



119. Thomas Goodwin, sch. Bellerophon. Fragment of limestone 

 containing fossil shells, from Grand Banks, lat. 44° 30' ]ST., long. 50° 35' 

 W., 85 fathoms. 



120. Crew of sch. Grace C. Hadley. Stone with barnacles and bryo- 

 zoa attached, from George's Bank. 



121. Sch. Carl Schurz. Sword of sword-fish, caught on trawl-lines. 



122. Edward R. Childs, sch. Mary F. Chisholin. Young green 

 turtle (Chelonia my das), found floating on southeast part of. Le Have 

 Bank. 



123. Morris Welsh, sch. Triton. A specimen of finger-sponge 

 (Challna, sp.), from George's Bank, 50 fathoms. 



124. Capt. B. A. Williams, sch. Centennial. Scollop shell with bar- 

 nacles, bryozoans, and sea-corn upon it ; and pebbles with branching 

 bryozoans attached. 



125. John H. Jellow, sch. G. P. Whitman. Three specimens of 

 great bush-coral (Primnoa reseda), from Le Have Bank, 250 fathoms ; six 

 specimens of sea-snails (Lunatia heros), and three valves of the great 

 scollop (Pecten tenuicostatus), from George's Bank, 80 fathoms. 



120. William Collins. Jaws of a shark, caught oft' Monhegan 

 Island. 



127. Capt. John Q. Getchell, Gloucester. Fish parasites, barna- 

 cles, shrimps and skates' jaws, from George's Bank. 



128. Edward W. Hodokins, Gloucester. A specimen of the great 

 spiny spider-crab (Lithodes maia), caught in Harbor Cove, Gloucester, 

 1872, and the rock crab (Cancer irroratus), of large size, from Annis- 

 quam Biver, Cape Ann. 



129. Capt. J. W. Collins and crew, sch. Marion. Six black dogfish 

 (CentroscyUium Fauricii) ; wolf-fish (Anarrhiehas Jatifrons) ; 7 rudder-fish 

 (Palinurichthys perciformis) ; one chimasra (Chimccra plumbea) ; a grena- 

 dier (Macrurus Fabricii) ; a pug-nosed eel, new to science; one Argentina 

 new to the coast, and two blue hake (Haloporphyrus viola). Captain 

 Collins also brought in Lamarck's basket-fish (Astropliyton LamardMi), 

 Finmark sea-feather (Balticina Finmarchica), sea-cauliflower (Aleyonivm 

 mulUflorum), and a large and valuable collection of other invertebrates, 

 from Banquereau, 200 to 300 fathoms; and about forty specimens of the 

 rarer water birds. 



130. Capt. John McInnis, sch. M. H. Perkins. Black dogfish (Centro- 

 scymnus ccelolepis), Sable Island Bank, 200 fathoms. 



