chap, i.] INTRODUCTION. I J) 



Carpenter with some more ample particulars of this 



Fig. 1. — Astcrophytoii Unckii, Muller and Troschel. A yonng specimen slightly 

 enlarged. No. '■>. 



occurrence : l — " ' The ship sounded in 1,000 fathoms, 

 mud, between one and two miles off shore (lat. 



1 Preliminarjr Report, by Dr. William JR. Carpenter, V.P.R.S., of 

 Dredging Operations in the Seas to the North of the British Islands, 

 carried on in Her Majesty's steam- vessel ' Lightning,' by Dr. 

 Carpenter and Dr. Wyville Thomson. (Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society, 1868, p. 177.) 



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