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thread. From this size upward I have no difficulty in finding 
abundant examples as ioadually increasing in diameter as they 
did in length—thus furnishing a pretty strong evidence that 
the stem grows under the influence of its own innate powers, 
and is not, therefore, a deposit emanating from the body of the 
monad, except, perhaps, as far as it may be nourished by a 
fluid circulating within its hollow core.” | 
[To be continued. | 
XX VIII.— Observations on the Fur-Seals of the Antarctic Seas 
and the Cape of Good Hope, with the Description of a new 
Species. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.8. 
_ FURTHER research and additional specimens have shown that, 
with all the attention I had bestowed on the Seals which had 
been named Phoca falklandica, | have some additions which 
require to be made to my former paper. 
Japt. Abbot assures me that there were only three kinds of 
Seals found in the Falkland Islands when he was there, about 
ten years ago,—viz. (1) the Sea-Bear (Otaria jubata), (2) the 
Fur-Seal (Arctocephalus nigrescens), which are Eared Seals, 
and (3) the Sea-Leopard (Stenorhynchus leptonyx), which is an 
Earless Hair-Seal. 
According to Pernetty (Voy. aux files Malouines, p. 202), 
Sea-Lions or Sea-Elephants (Morunga elephantina) were found 
there in his time: they may have been driven away or all 
destroyed by the sealers; and some other species that for- 
merly lived in the islands may have shared the same fate. 
If that is the case, the beautiful Fur-Seal in the British 
Museum which I have named Arctocephalus falklandicus is not 
now found in the Falkland Islands, though it was received as 
-a Seal from there. On my showing Mr. Bartlett the specimen, 
he brought me a furrier’s small imperfect skin of the same 
species, which he had purchased of a fellmonger, who assured 
him that such Fur-Seal skins were only received from the 
arctic part of the Pacific Ocean. If this be true, the skin 
was probably that of a young individual either of Steller’s 
Sea-Bear (Humetopias Stellert) or of a species allied to it, 
which, as I mentioned in my former paper, are the only Seals 
that have such a close, soft, elastic fur. 
The statement that the Museum specimen of Arctocephalus 
falklandicus was not a Falkland but a northern species renders 
it necessary that further research should be made to determine 
the two specimens in the Museum of Science and Art at Edin- 
burgh, which were, according to Mr. R. Hamilton, conveyed to 
