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considerable success at depths from 380 to 994 

 fathoms (Stations 14-16) : the wind and sea had now 

 gone down ; and we took with the scoop-net a few 

 living specimens of Clio cuspidata. The dredgings in 

 380 and 469 fathoms yielded among the mollusca 

 Leda lucida (Norwegian and a Sicilian fossil), Axinm 

 eumyarius (also Norwegian), Near a obesa (Spitz- 

 bergen to the West of Ireland), Odostomia, n. sp., O. 

 minuta (Mediterranean), and CeritMum, n. sp. ; and 

 among the echinoderms were Arising a endecacnemos 

 and Asteronyx loveni. But the results of the dredg 

 ing in 994 fathoms were so extraordinary as to excite 

 our utmost astonishment. It being late in the even 

 ing, the contents of the dredge could not be sifted 

 and examined until daylight the next morning. We 



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then saw a marvellous assemblage of shells, mostly 

 dead, but comprising certain species which we had 

 always considered as exclusively northern, and others 

 which Mr. Jeffreys recognized as Sicilian tertiary fos 

 sils, while nearly 40 per cent, of the entire number 

 of species were undescribed, and some of them repre 

 sented new genera. The following is an analysis of 

 the mollusca perfect and fragmentary taken in this 

 one haul : 



