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the dabo-line from a dejitli of GOO hiro, its own weight upon the 

 rope cut the body into two. One half of this grand prize was 

 securely entangled l)ut the other half went sinking dowm and 

 would have been lost forever, had not Kuma phiekily dived and 

 secured it just in time. 



A gigantic specimen oi Aiihrocalli&tes vastus, F. E. Sen., pur- 

 chased by jMr. Owstox of a fisherman and which doubtless is 

 now in the British Museum, measured about 22 inches in height 

 and 20 inches across at the widest part. It could have been 

 obtained only by the rope of the long-line. 



A dead but a very striking specimen of Ckonelasma calyx 

 F.E.ScH., in the possession of the Sci. Coll. Museum, deserves to 

 be specially mentioned on account of the host of animals that 

 are attached to it (see the halftone figure on p. 31). For, it 

 bears no less than : 1 small RhahdocaIyj)tus glaber Tj.; 6 young 

 Rhabdocalyiitus capillatus Ij.; 5 small Ghaunoplectella cavernosa 

 Ij.; 1 small, dead and undeterminable Dictyonine Hexactinellid ; 

 several Thrnea sp.; 4 calcareous sponges representing 2 species ; 

 1 Lithistid ; several Monaxonid sponges ; over 70 (!) Terebralella 

 hlanfordi ; 9 Laqueus ruhellus ; several Lima sp.; 1 Fusus sp.; and 

 Hnally a goodly number of Ophiurons and Bryozoans ! Another 

 similarly interesting object is a large barrel-like Hexactinella, 

 which frequently bears on it among other things a number of 

 smaller glass-sponges. These cases will sufBciently illustrate 

 with what delight we have welcomed everything — including stones 

 and rock-fragments (often several pounds in weight), coal-cinders 

 which must have been thrown overboard from steamers, and 

 even old tin-cans and such like things — that the long-line has 

 brought up from the bottom. 



After what I have said above with respect to sponges, I 



