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No. 7.— Studies from the Newport Marine Zodlogical Laboratory. 
Communicated by ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. 
XIX. 
On Certain Meduse from New England. By J. Waurrr Fewxes. 
Tue following paper is intended as a contribution to our knowledge of 
New England jelly-fishes. It deals for the most part with animals of 
this group from the northern waters of the coast of Maine, and from 
Grand Manan.* During a vacation visit of a month’s time at the latter 
locality, in the summer of 1886, the author collected several new and 
highly interesting meduse.f Incidentally, in studies of animals of 
other groups in the summer of 1885, some observations were made on 
Eastport medusz. 
* While the waters of the Gulf Stream justly attract the attention of natural- 
ists interested in the study of our pelagic fauna, there is much yet to be done with 
the dip-net in the cold waters of the Bay of Fundy and the coasts of Nova Scotia 
and New Brunswick. 
{+ Mention is made in these pages of those medusz only which were collected 
by the author, and no attempt is made to include all those mentioned by others. 
It is next to impossible to make out a complete faunal list of the meduse of any 
locality, except after years of study. From the nature of their life, stragglers and 
sporadic swarms of rare medusz appear in localities where the medusan fauna 
has been well studied. For ten years I have kept watch of the meduse which 
appear in Narragansett Bay in summer months, and a season rarely passes in 
which some jelly-fish new to the known fauna is not observed. Sometimes 
specimens of some new genus will appear in such abundance that it seems im- 
possible that we could have missed seeing them if they had appeared in other 
summers. In some years the water near the Newport Laboratory is filled with 
Pleurobrachiz, while in others stragglers only appear. In the past summer the 
most common acaleph in Narragansett Bay was Dactylometra, hundreds of speci- 
mens of which were seen, and yet in former summers we rarely have observed 
more than a half-dozen in the course of a summer. 
In the light of these facts it seems preposterous to attempt a monograph of the 
meduse of the Bay of Fundy with the limited material collected on the short 
visits which I have been able to make to these waters. 
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