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heathy pastures, extending from Paixley's Wood up to 

 nearly the town of Castletown." The next day was his 

 last at Castletown, and after dredging the whole day he 

 mentions some disappointment at getting " no medusae/' 

 but many Echinodermata were landed, and "flocks of 

 Shearwaters kept skimming about." At Ardgroom some 

 stormy days, when the boatmen refused to go out, left him 

 leisure for a little exploration on land, and for discovering 

 a new station for Carex punctata. On the whole however, 

 the dredging at Ardgroom proved fairly productive, and 

 when added to the results from the south side of the penin- 

 sula, yielded a handsome collection. Several specimens 

 turned up of that strange creature the Amphioxus lanceo- 

 latus, the lowest in organization of all fishes (if indeed it 

 deserves to be called a fish at all) ; and he was glad to 

 get at Ardgroom also the Salmo estuarius, or silvery- 

 scaled variety of the common trout, which Dr. Giinther had 

 described as sometimes found in salt water, but to which 

 little attention had yet been paid. 



The Ascidians collected on this expedition somewhat 

 disappointed him by turning out to belong almost exclu- 

 sively to three species a very different result from the 

 goodly number brought home from Kilkieran and Round- 

 stone in 1869. A gratifying tribute to his researches in 

 this group had lately been paid him by Mr. Albany Han- 

 cock, to whom he had sent for determination (along with 

 others) an Ascidian " cast ashore on the North Bull on 

 October 23rd, 1870," which Mr. Hancock named Ascidia 

 morei : writing (June loth, 1871) "A. morei is new, and I 

 beg to dedicate it to yourself in remembrance of your 

 numerous interesting discoveries." 



He had a practical object in view in attending the 

 meeting of the British Association held in the following 

 month at Edinburgh (August and-Qth), for he hoped to 

 secure a grant in aid of the further prosecution of Irish 

 zoological research. To stimulate interest in this subject, 

 he took to Scotland all the marine animals collected on the 

 Berehaven expedition, and exhibited them in the zoolo- 

 gical section, where he also read a paper inviting attention 



