MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 



45 



Funiciilina, the largest of which measured nearly four 

 feet iu length. The bed must be of considerable extent, 

 as the hauls were not on the same spot, and both 

 brought up equally good specimens of these magnificent 

 pennatulids. Most of the large specimens of Funiculina, 



Fig. 21. Examining the Catch on deck. 



by the way, were not caught in the trawl-net, but w^ere 

 balanced across the front of the frame, at each end, in 

 such a precarious position as to make one wonder how 

 many others had been lost in hauling in. The bottom 

 deposit was evidently fine mud." 



