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sulphate was kindly undertaken for us by Mr. J. Williams, who prepared 

 for us more than a hundredweight of each of these substances. We are also 

 indebted to Mr. W. G. Underhay for the use of his large coining-press for 

 the pressing of the lime -crucibles and the iron buttons. 



Report of the Committee appointed to explore the Marine Fauna and 

 Flora of the South Coast of Devon and Cormvall. — No. 3. Consist- 

 ing of Spence Bate, F.R.S., T. Cornish, Jonathan Couch, F.L.S., 

 J. GwYN Jeffreys, F.R.S., and J. Brooking Rowe, F.L.S. Re- 

 po7'ter, C. Spence Bate. 



In presenting to the Association the Third Report on the Fauna and Flora of 

 the Southern Coast of Devon and Cornwall, I have to state that, independently 

 of endeavouring to obtain a complete registration of all the more rare forms 

 of life that exist upon the coast-line within dredging distance of the shore, 

 the Committee have, as far as practicable, endeavoured to, obtain information 

 relative to the development, growth, and habits of those animals of which 

 our knowledge has hitherto been imperfect. 



Cetacea. 



I think it desirable to put on record the Cetacea that have been taken 

 within the last few years on the coast, specimens of most of which are pre- 

 served in the Museum of the Plymouth Institution. 

 Delphinus delplds. Dolphin. 



Occasionally in the Channel : the last, January 1864. From the immense 

 mass of fat underlying the skin, and from some unknown reason causing the 

 skin to shrink, it was found impossible to preserve it. 

 D. tursio. Bottlenoso Dolphin. 



No record of any since the one described by Montagu in 1814. 



Phoccena communis. Porpoise. 

 Common. 



P. orca. Grampus, 



Occasionally in the Channel. In Mr. Ross's collection, now in the Exeter 

 Museum, I believe, was a young one driven on shore at Exmouth in 1844. 

 The specimen in the Museum of the Plymouth Institution has been taken since. 

 P. melas. Round-headed Porpoise. 



One captured off Plymouth in April 1839, and towed into the harbour. 

 Pliyseter macroceplialus. Spermaceti Whale. 



One is stated by Bellamy to have been thrown on shore near Plymouth 

 many years since. 



Bcdmnoptera hoops. 



This species has occurred several times. One in 1831 (the specimen now 

 in the British Museum) was tound lloating oif the Eddystone ; a second 

 was captured in a herring-net in Torbay, in 184G. In 1803 one was ob- 

 tained off Plymouth, and the skeleton was purchased by the Alexandra Park 

 Company, and is now, I suppose, at Muswell Hill, 

 Beluga alhicmis. 



Mr. P. H. Gosse writes :— " On August 6th, 1832, I was returning from 

 Newfoundland to England, and was sailing up! the British Channel close 

 to the land, when just off Berry Head I saw under the ship's bows a large 



