Miscellaneous. 373. 



son, thu^, " wonga S r which is wholly unauthorized, but which at 

 once explains how Prof. Owen has been misled. 



I had already, on my arrival in London, discovered the mistake, 

 and took immediate steps to rectify it. But some time elapsed be- 

 fore I recovered the drawings from the Zoological Society and ob- 

 tained my papers from Scotland. As soon as I had cleared up the 

 difficulty, I sent a full explanation of the circumstances to Prof. 

 Owen, and called on him to express my regret for having led him 

 into error. He said he would communicate with the Secretary of the 

 Zoological Society on the subject, and at the same time returned to 

 me some other drawings he had found among those I sent him, which 

 showed that I had even been more careless than I supposed ; for 

 they related to matters wholly irrelevant, several of them being 

 figures of other Cetaceans which I had copied from published works 

 for reference, and which I should assuredly have eliminated had I 

 examined the contents of my packet, as I ought to have done. 



As to the missing lower jaw, it was unfortunately lost or mislaid 

 in transmitting the specimens from India ; but it had been in my 

 possession for eight or nine years, and I can vouch for the accuracy 

 of the drawings, which were carefully compared with the original. 



I shall feel obliged by your inserting this in your next Number. 



Walter Elliot. 



Linnean Society, Burlington House. 

 April 2G, 1867. 



Addition to the Note on Euphysetes simus. 



The remarks I made at page 263 on the drawings and the sex of 

 Euphysetes simus were founded on some observations of Sir Walter 

 Elliot, who discovered the species and had the drawings made ; 

 and he seemed much annoyed at the mistake. I am this day 

 (the IfJth of April) informed (and Sir Walter Elliot was evidently 

 not aware of the circumstance, and I have never seen the drawings) 

 that some foolish mischievous person has made additions and notes 

 on the drawings, which fully justified Professor Owen in believing 

 they were intended to represent the two sexes of the species. — 

 J. E. Gray. 



Forum in if era I Soiin dings. 



A series of twenty-nine soundings, made in November 1866 (under 

 the superintendence of Captain Oesterreicher, of the Imperial Navy 

 of Austria), along the southernmost part of the west coast of the 

 Istrian peninsula, yielded the following results : — Some contained 

 only small Shells and detritus of shells, with Polyzoa and Corals and 

 very few Foraminifera ; others, especially of sandy and loamy ooze, 

 were poor in small Polyzoa and Shells, but richer in both small and 

 relatively large Foraminifera. Soundings from a depth of 1 3- 1 30 feet 

 (Austrian) abounded in Polijstomella cnspa, Lam., and Rotalia 

 Beccarii, Linn., associated with rarer specimens of Miliola (Tri- 

 foculina) trigonula. Lam., M. (Quinqueloculina) seminulum, Linn., 

 M. (Q.) ljicornis,'\y&\k., and its var. anyulata, and M .{Sinroloculina) 



