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Geryon tridens, is a fine Norwegian species. With 

 these are associated two forms of a more southern 

 character, Inachus dorsettensis and Ebalia cranchii, 

 which I should not have expected at so great a 

 depth." The echinoderms were a very northern 

 group. They included Cidaris papillata, Echinus nor- 

 vegicus and E. microstoma, the young of Brissopsis 

 hi r if era, Astropecten arctlcus, Ar chaster andronieda, 

 and A. parellii, with a small specimen of Ophio- 

 musium lymani, several examples of Ophiacantha 

 spinulosa, and as usual one or two of the universally 

 distributed Echinocummis ti/pica. Dr. Mcintosh, to 

 whom the annelids were referred, notices as a species 

 supposed to be specially northern, Thelepus coro- 

 na tits, Fab.; and lloltenia carpenteri, our familiar 

 anchoring sponge, of all sizes and ages and in consider- 

 able numbers, was entangled in the hempen ' swabs.' 

 July 9th.— The wind still too light for effective 

 work. Dredged in 717 and 358 fathoms, the assem- 

 blage of mollusca having the usual character of being 

 to a great extent common to the recent fauna of the 

 seas of Norway and to the pliocene fauna of Sicily 

 and the Mediterranean. It included on this occasion 

 Terebratetla spitzbergensis, an arctic and Japanese 

 form, Pecten vitreus, and P. aratus, Leda pernula, 

 Trochns sutitralis, Odostomia nitens, and Pleurotoma 

 hispiduliim. Among the echinoderms was a fine 

 specimen of JBrisluga endecacnemos, Absjornsen, 

 very markedly different from B. coronata, which was 

 the form commonly met with in the north. The 

 corals were represented by Amphihelia ocidata and 

 Desmophyllum crista-galli. Among the annelids were 

 Bista cristata, O. P. Muller, and Trophonia glauca. 



