CHAP, i.] INTRODUCTION. [<) 



Carpenter with some more ample particulars of this 



FIG. l.Asterophyton linckii, ML'LLER and TROSCHEL. A young specimen slightly 

 enlarged. No. 75. 



occurrence i 1 " < The ship sounded in 1,000 fathoms, 

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



1 Preliminary Report, by Dr. William B. 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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