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frequently entangled in large numbers on the loose 

 hemp. This group seems to be specially characteristic 

 of the sea at an arctic temperature. They are re 

 ported of almost incredible size, thirty centimetres or 

 so across, from the late German and Swedish polar 

 expeditions, and they have also been found enor- 



Fir, ^2Nymphnn n7,j/.nvww, NORMAN. Sli^litly enlarged (No. 5<U 



mously large in deep water in the antarctic 

 They often come up clinging to the sounding 

 The Mollusca, which in the preceding 

 usually constituted the principal results 

 dredging, were here quite subordinate as 

 both number and variety to the groups 



regions. 

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