MisceUaneous. .{71 



On " Saryasso-Sms."' 

 (Extract froin a Ifttt-r to Dr. (iii.vv from I'lol'. Agarhii.) 

 *' On the iniii)s (if ('apt. Maury tluTC are marked several * Sarj^asso- 

 scas.' It is well known tliat the one in the Atlantic Ocean, between 

 the Cape-Vertle Islands and the Azores, consists merely of specimens 

 oi SanjussHin Ixtcclfiriim ; but I think that it is not known of what 

 species the other Sargasso-seas are formed, and lliat it would be of 

 some interest to have specimens collected there. Would it not be in 

 j-our power, by the commission of the Admiralty, to have specimens 

 from the different localities collected? and they need be only rudely 

 dried ; they may be afterwards easily prepared. I find such Sargasso- 

 seas marked in the following places : — 



"West of the Cape of (Jood llope, between 30° and 45°lat. S., 

 between 0° and 15° long. W. from Greenwich. 



" North from the Falklands, between 45° and 60° long. 



" South-east from the Cape of Good Hope, between 45° and 'J0° 

 long. E., and between 40° and 50° lat. S. 



" East from New Zealand, between 45° and 50° lat. S., between 

 160° and 17u° long. 



"North from the Sandwich Islands, between 30° and 45° lat. N., 

 140° and 17tt° long. 



"I think it would be of interest, not only for the algologist, but 

 also for the knowledge of the movements of the sea, the study of 

 currents, ttc." 



On sending Prof. Agardh's inquiries to Capt. Toynbee, he re- 

 plies : — 



" On referring to Capt. Maury's maps, I do not sec so many Sar- 

 gasso-seas as mentioned by Prof. Agardh. 



" During my voyages to India we very frequently met with sea- 

 weed to the S.'W. and also to the S.E. of the Cape of Good Hope : 

 it was what is commonly called kelp, having long stalks and broad 

 leaves. It is verj- abundant near Tristan d'Acunha, the Crozets, &c. 

 I am not aware that there is any part of the sea w^hich has large 

 fields of weed of a kind peculiar to itself, cxcei^tiug the Sargasso-sea 

 in the Atlantic. 



" I see, in his ' Physical Geography of the Sea,' Capt. Maury 

 does give a map of these various patches of weed ; but he does not 

 imply that they are of kinds peculiar to those spots, but otherwise. 

 I think I may say decidedly that those of the South Atlantic and 

 Southern Indian Ocean are kelp or something of that kind." 



The Chinese Long-tailed Goat Antelope (Urotragus caudatus). 

 By Dr. J. E. Gkay, F.R.S. &c. 



The long-taUed goat antelope from North China {Antilope crispa 

 of Radde, and Antilope cauduta of Milne-Edwards) agrees with the 

 genus Capricornis in having a naked muffle, but differs from it in 

 having no crumcn or suborbital pit in the skull in fi'ont of the orbit. 



