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No. 17. {Label) " Loch Scrcsort, Rhuru. Dredging, 3 fms. 13 Aug. 1913." 



Grey sandy mud with shells ; stones with adherent forms and molluscan debris. 



Residue after washing, 350 cc. Eloatings (very rich), 15-5 cc. Elutriation from 



120 ec. of washed material (very rich), 9 cc. Fine sittings through 150-mesh silk 



(very rich), 1*2 cc. 109 spp. and vars. 

 Noteworthy forms : Haplophragmiwn nmianum, nov., Lagena aspera and reniformis, 



Lingalina carinata, Cristellaria variabilis. 



No. 16. {Label) " Off East Coast of Rhum, between Rhum and Eigg. Dredging, low 

 water to GO fms. 12 Aug. 1913." 



A nut-brown detrital shell-sand (very like No. 3, post), 3 lbs. Coarse material 

 removed on 1/10 sieve, 750 cc. Residue, 10S0 cc. A few grey granite-pebbles with 

 adherent forms. Eloatings (poor), -5 cc. Elutriation (fair), 65 cc. 107 spp. and vars. 



Eine fistulose Polymorphinse in the coarse siftings. 



Noteworthy forms : Textularia sage/tula var. j/igosa, Truncatulina akneriana, 

 Pulvinulina brongniartii. 



No. 18. {Label) " Off South of Eigg. Dredging, 30 fms. 13 Aug. 1913." 



Loose grey sandy mud with shells and molluscan fragments, 3| lbs. Much algal 



detritus and small stones. Whole bulk, 13U0 cc. Shell-debris and stones removed on 



1/10 sieve, 150 cc. Residue after washing, 175 cc. Eloatings (pure Eorarainifera), 



5 cc. Elutriation (very rich), 13 cc. 1G9 spp. and vars. 

 Noteworthy forms : Storthosphcera albida, Lagena semilmeata and formosa, Globi- 



gerina dubia. 



No. 3. [Label) " Off Ardnamurchan, Inverness. Shell-bank. Dredging, 30 fms. 

 14 July, 1913." 



A nut-brown shell and coral detritus, 2335 cc. Very clean and coarse. Very like 

 No. 16 {ante). Coarsest material retained on 1/10 sieve, 1100 cc. Eloatings from 

 residue (very rich), 13 cc. 123 spp. and vars. 



(See Rep. Liverpool Marine Biol. Com. 1913, p. 27, figs. 12, 13.) 



The coarse siftings very rich in gigantic forms of Polymorphina (fistulose), Gypsiua, 

 Miliolina, Pulvinulina, etc. 



Noteworthy forms : Spiroplecta fusca, Lagena marginata var. semimarglnata, 

 Pulvinulina elegants. 



No. 9. {Label) " Laga Bay, Loch Sunart. Dredging, 5-12 fms. 26 July, 1913." 



{a) A small sample of grey-black muddy dredge-debris, with large shells {Peclen, 

 Venus, Donax, etc.). Sponge and algal refuse and masses of cilia of a crinoid 

 (Anledon bifida, Penn.). Bulk of the whole (by displacement), 30 cc. Residue after 

 washing and removing shells etc. on 1/10 sieve, IS cc. Eloatings (very rich), 105 cc. 

 (accounted for by Antedon and Polyzoa). 





