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of Echinus flemlngii of unusual size, and as it was 

 blowing fresh and there was some little difficulty in 

 getting the dredge capsized, we gave little heed to 

 what seemed to be an inevitable necessity — that it 

 should be crushed to pieces. We were somewhat 

 surprised, therefore, when it rolled out of the bag 

 uninjured; and our surprise increased, and was cer- 



Fio. 27. — Calveria hystrix, Wyville Thomson Two-thirds the natural size 1N0. KG.) 



tainly in my case mingled witli a certain amount of 

 nervousness, when it settled down quietly in the form 

 of a round red cake, and began to pant — a line of 

 conduct, to say the least of it very unusual in its 

 rigid undemonstrative order. Yet there it was with 

 all the ordinary characters of a sea-urchin, its inter- 

 ainbulacral areas, and its ambulacra! areas with their 



