Vlil CONTENTS. 



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 for the Year 1872; The Ears of Sea-lions and Sea-bears, by Dr. J. 

 E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. : The Sea-Serpent again ! by J. Cobbin ; Ob-. 

 servations on the Extinct Whalebone-Whales (Balcsnoida) the 

 remains of which have been found in the Vienna Basin, by Prof. 

 J. F. Brandt 480—484 



Index 485 



PLATES IN VOL. IX. 

 Plate 



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ew British Ostracoda. 



III." 



y" J New Species of Snakes. 



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VII 1 

 VIII f ^^^'s^^^s of the Giraffe. 



IX. Oneirodes Eschrichtii. 



X. Structure of Tethya dactyloidea. — New Species of Fossil Coral. 

 XL Development of Spongilla arachnoidea. 

 XII.^ 

 XIIL . 

 XIV. VStructure of the Vorticelloe. 



XV. 

 XVI.J 



XVIII f I^isli-i'emaiiis from the Newsham Coal-measures. 

 XIX. Skin of Rhytina and Parasite. 

 XXI [^^'^ Sponges from the Antarctic Sea. 

 XXII. Tethya zetlandica. 



