360 Alexander Goodman More. 



dition ! Did the two long arms expand into a club at their ends, or 

 were they broken off? It is on these ends that the most suckers are 

 found. I enclose you an old number of " The Zoologist," where you 

 will see an account of the Bofin Squid, and in all probability yours was 

 the same species. When fresh it should have had a lengthened body ; 

 but I suppose the whole had collapsed into one mass, except the arms. 

 Please write again. 



A long illness during August and September had made 

 him much less sanguine about his zoological projects. In 

 a letter to Mr. Barrington (December i/j-th) he revives the 

 subject of the Vertebrate Fauna. " But you and I are 

 getting so * old,' do you call it, or lazy, that I am almost 

 despairing/' 



