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"depths. Such hopes were doomed to disappointment; but 

 " even to the last, every cuttle-fish which came up in our deep- 

 " sea net was squeezed to see if it had a Belemnite's bone in its 

 " back, and Trilobites were eagerly looked out for. . . . We 

 " picked up no missing links to fill up the gaps of the great zoo- 

 " logical family tree. The results of the Challenget^s voyage have 

 " gone to prove that the missing links are to be sought out rather 

 " by more careful investigation of the structure of animals already 

 " partially known, than by hunting for entirely new ones in the 

 "deep sea." — Notes by a Naturalist, p. 587. 



The work which has been already done by Mr. Moseley him- 

 self in this direction, contained in the memoirs he has presented 

 to the Royal and the Linneean Society, is of first-rate value. And 

 if the whole, or even any considerable part, of the vast Challenger 

 collection shall be worked out by the various specialists among 

 whom it has been distributed, with anything like the same com- 

 pleteness and ability, it cannot be questioned that the series of 

 volumes in which the scientific results of this voyage will be em- 

 embodied will far surpass in interest and importance those reports 

 of previous Circumnavigation Expeditious which are accounted 

 models of their class. 



