258 Miscellaneoufi. 



Nos. 2 to 5, above described, having a short, thick, massive body, 

 and broad, but comparatively thin jaws, which are also different in 

 form. Some of the differences in size and proportions, and in the 

 suckers, observed among the four specimens referred to the latter 

 species may be due to sex ; for the sexes differ considerably in these 

 characters in all known cuttlefishes. — American Journal of Science 

 and Arts, Feb. 1874. 



Umbellula from Greenland. By Joshtta Lindahl. 



Mr. Lindahl has written a paper on the two specimens of Umhel- 

 lida taken on the coast of Greenland. It will appear in the next 

 volume of the ' Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akad. Handliugar' of Stockholm, 

 illustrated with three quarto plates, each containing several figures. 



Mr. Lindalil considers the two specimens different from one 

 another and from the Umbelhda encrimis of Linnaeus figured by 

 Mylius and ElUs. He observes he must confess that the difference 

 may depend upon the difference of age, and as for U. encrinus upon 

 imperfection in the figure and description. At all events, he thinks 

 it better to describe his two specimens as two different and new 

 species in order to call attention to the differences, observing " that 

 when new investigations of the deep sea have brought together richer 

 materials, as no doubt thej will, if I have committed a mistake in 

 this respect it will be easUy corrected." He considers that Umbel- 

 hda and Crinillum form one group, as Dr. Gray has pointed out. 

 He regards them as true Pennatulids, and puts them among the 

 "Zunft" Pennatulidge as the fifth family, Umbelhdce, close to the 

 family BathyptUeae (Kolliker, ' Die Pennatuliden,' p. 380). The 

 rachis, or pars polypifera, is about one fortieth of the length of the 

 stem ; polypes not retractile, without calyclcs, the lateral ones large 

 and the dorsal small ; the zooids are crowded in lateral and ventral 

 shields (" Wiilste," Koll.) ; the axis square, with one deep groove on 

 each side ; no spicula in any part of body. 



On the Bos pumilus of Sir Victor Broohe. 

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



Sir Victor Brooke's paper in the last number of the 'Annals' shows 

 that he does not understand the question between us, and it contains 

 many erroneous statements. I will therefore state the question as 

 shortly as I can. 



Sir Victor Brooke states at p. 159 : — " Turton, having founded 

 the name Bos pumilus upon Pennant's ' Dwarf,' it follows that the 

 horns spoken of and figured by Pennant are typical specimens of 

 ^Bos pumihis.^ " The statement that the fragment of the forehead 

 and horns are typical of Pennant's "Dwarf," and therefore of the 

 B. piumilus of Turton, who never refers to the specimen, is entirely 

 inaccurate, as the following statement will prove. 



Columna figured a buffalo from Morocco. Pennant and Turton 

 abbreviated his description and called it the dwarf buffalo and Bos 



