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I should propose to call this species Epiodon Hermdtu,\,o distinguish 

 it from Risso's Delphhius Desmarestii. The skull of E. Heraultii and 

 PetrorhyncJius cavirosiris, as shown in Gervais's figure, is very dif- 

 ferent ; and probably, as the Hyperoodon de Corse of Doumet is 

 proved to be the animal of Petrorhynchus, Delphhius Philippii of 

 Cocco may be the animal of Epiodon HeraxdtlL 



The Swedish Scientific Expedition. 



[Extract from a letter from Mr. J. E. Lindahl to Dr. J. E. Gray.] 



My Greenland expedition was very successful. The ' Gladan ' 

 shipped the meteorite iron at Disco Island, and then she made a 

 cruise to some places where our geologist, Dr. Nanckhoff, wanted to 

 carry out his explorations ; and Dr. Th. M. Fries, a botanist who had 

 joined the expedition as a private passenger, followed him. I had 

 got the steamer ' Inzegerd ' for my dredging-operations. I went up 

 to Uperuivik at the 73rd degree of latitude, thence westward till we 

 met the lasting ice ; and following the edge of the ice we made south- 

 ward down to St. John's, Newfoundland, to fall in with the ' Gladan ' 

 and retvu'n to Sweden in company. 



From Cape Terewek to Upernivik, and thence to St. John's, we 

 dropped our dredges at least once for every degree of latitude that 

 we passed, often in pretty good depths of water down to 980 fathoms. 

 In 410 fathoms I got two specimens of the Umhellula groenlandica — 

 I think better Umbelhdaria encrinus. There is not the sHghtest 

 doubt that they are not of the same species as those described and 

 figured by Ellis and Mylius. My specimens are younger, only some 

 12 inches long, and with fewer polypes (about 12), than in the former 

 ones. I am just going to work out a paper upon them, which will 

 probably appear in the beginning of next year. Although these 

 animals are probably the most interesting things brought home by 

 the expedition, they are by no means the only objects of high scien- 

 tific value. Among the great number of siUceous sponges and 

 starfishes, as well as some other groups of animals, I have reason to 

 believe that many new or rare things are to be found ; but nothing 

 is yet examined except the Arachnida, described by Tamerlan Tho- 

 rell in the ' (Efversigt af Kongi. Vetenskaps Akademiens Forhand- 

 lingar,' 1872, no. 2, pp. 147-166. I had not much time for 

 explorations on shore. Our physicists, Dr. Nystrom and Dr. Fries, 

 assisted in making collections on shore. We found but twenty 

 specimens of Arachnida, nearly all of them new to science. A few 

 of them were also taken by Professor Nordenskiold in 1870. We 

 collected a pretty good amount of skeletons and implements from 

 some long-abandoned Esquimaux villages. Also temperature sound- 

 ings were taken ; and samples of water from the abysses of Baffin's 

 Bay were brought home. I hope the expedition will prove to have 

 many important results to science ; only we want the means of 

 employing scientific people to work it all out ; but the Swedes have 

 not copper enough to do such things rapidly. 



This summer I have examined the greater depths in Skagerrack 



