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neutral territory is produced, in which the conditions of the arctic 

 province, scarcely, if at all, affected by the Gulf-stream, may meet 

 more or less with those of the boreal province ; whilst boreal animals 

 may the more easily be carried northwards to Nowaja-Semlja from 

 the neighbouring 8candina\'ian coasts, as the Gulf-stream passing by 

 the latter carries them to this island. 



The following summary furuishes e\'idence of this. In it I have 

 referred only to those animals of whose distribution in the northern 

 sea we are accurately informed. 



There have been found on the shores of Nowaja-Semlja : — 



I. Animals which were known only as arctic : 



Cast:iUa arctica. Mlmg., Spitzbergen. Nereis zoiiata, Mlmg., 

 Spitzbergen and North Greenland. Euchonc anal is, Kr., Spitz- 

 bergen and Greenland. Chone Duneri, Mlmg.,' Spitzbergen. 

 Asteracantliion c/i'dnlandicus, Steenstr., Greenland. Mijriotro- 

 chus Kinkii, Steenstr., Greenland. 



II. Animals which were known only as boreal, or which had their 



northern limit of distribution in the boreal province : 

 Evarne impar, Johnst., Iceland, Norwegian, English, and French 

 coasts. Pista cristata, Miill., Norwegian and English coasts. 

 Eiichone papillosa, Sars, Norway. 



III. Animals found everywhere in the northern sea : 

 Harmothoe imhricata, Linn. Pholoe minuta, Fab. Lumbriconereis. 



Cirratuliis cirratus, Miill. Amphitrite cirrata, Miill. Terehel- 

 lides Stromii, Sars. Priapulus caudatus, Lam. Alcyonidium 

 gelatinosum, Linn. 



Here also must be placed Erigone longipalpis, Sund., which, as 

 Dr. Koch kindly informs me, has been observed in England, occurs 

 in Sweden, and has been found in Spitzbergen. Bdella arctica, 

 Thor., appears to be widely distributed in high northern latitudes, 

 and to occur particularly abundantly in Greenland. 



As regards the animals collected on the coast of Finmark, I have only 

 to remark that among them there are some which have hitherto been 

 known only from more northern coasts, such as: — Scione lobata,M\mg., 

 Spitzbergen and Greenland ; Phascolosoma boreale, Kef., Greenland ; 

 Ophiocten sericeum, Forb., Ljungm., Polar America, Greenland, and 

 Spitzbergen, — Sitzungsher. phys.-med. Soc. zu Erlangen, January 12, 

 1873. 



On "Le Eat de Madagascar^' • 



By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.E.S. &c. 



Buffon, in the third volume of the 'Supplement' to the 'Histoire 

 Naturellc,' p. 49, t. xx., describes and figures " lo Rat de Madagascar " 

 from a specimen that lived several years in the collection of Madame 

 la Comtesse de Massam. This figure has been referred to the Lemur 

 murinus of Gmelin and to several other nominal species. 



Unfoi-tunately the size of the animal is not mentioned ; but if the 

 figure is of the size of the living specimen there can be little doubt 



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