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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 



" per litora spargite museum. 



Naiades, et circum vitreos considite fontes: 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hie carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divae, replete eatiistrum. 

 At tos, o Nymphae Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata eorallia trunco 

 Vellite musc-osis e rupibus. et niihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



N. PartheniiGiannettasii Kol. I. 



No. 37. JANUARY 1891. 



I. — Natural History Notes from II. M. Indian Marine 

 Survey Steamer ' Investigator J Commander R. F. Hoskyn, 

 R.N., commanding. — No. 21. Note on the Results of the last 

 Season's Deep-sea Dredging. By J. WOOD-MASON, 

 Superintendent of the Indian Museum, and Professor of 

 Comparative Anatomy in the Medical College of Bengal, 

 and A. Alcock, M.B., Surgeon I. M. S., Surgeon-Natu- 

 ralist to the Survey. 



During eight seasons' surveying-operations along the Indian 

 coasts the ' Investigator,' in her passages from surveying- 

 giound to surveying-ground, has availed herself of numerous 

 opportunities of collecting information about the life of the 

 depths of the Indian seas. In the present paper we propose 

 to give a general sketch of the results of the last season's 

 labours in this direction, as summed up in twelve hauls of 

 the trawl, in depths ranging from 90 to 1439 fathoms, in the 

 Bay of Bengal and in that part of the Arabian Sea intervening 

 between the Laccadive Islands and the Malabar coast, which 

 we have called the Laccadive Sea. 



We could not, in the time available, include the deep-sea 

 collections of previous seasons ; but we hope that in course of 

 time these too may be noticed — at least in the same general 

 way. 



Except in the classes of Fishes and Crustaceans we have 

 made no attempt at systematic detail, our object being to 



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