45 



ing in the same great deep. The junction of the Dugongs and 

 Manatees with the true Whales cannot therefore be admitted in a 

 distribution of animals according to their organization. With much 

 superficial resemblance they have little real or organic resemblance 

 to the Walrus, which exhibits an extreme modification of the am- 

 phibious carnivorous type. I conclude, therefore, that the Dugong 

 and its congeners must either form a group apart, or be joined, as 

 in the classification of M. De Blainville, with the Pachyderms, with 

 which the herbivorous Cetacea have the nearest affinities, and to 

 which they seem to have been more immediately linked by the now 

 lost srenus Deinotherium." 



Admeasurements. 



Zool. Soc. 

 No. 1. 

 1831. 



Zool. Soc. 



Female. 



No. 2. 



1831. 



Zool. Soc. 

 Male. 

 No. 3. 

 1838. 



No. 



1. 



2. 

 3. 



5. 



6. 



7. 



8. 



9. 

 10. 

 11. 

 12. 

 13. 

 14. 

 15. 

 16. 

 17. 

 18. 

 19. 

 20. 

 21. 

 22. 

 23. 

 24. 

 25. 

 26. 



Total length of the animal 



Greatest circumference 



Length of head from nostrils to occi 



put 



Length of head from nostrils to end 



of snout 



Width of snout 



Depth of snout 



Length of cliin 



Breadth of chin 



Distance from nostrils to the eyes... 



Distance from eyes to ears 



Distance from eyes to flipper 



Length of the flippers 



Breadth of flippers ., 



Breadth across belly from fin to fin . 



Distance between the marnmcB 



Breadth of tail from tip to tip 



Circumference of root of tail 



Distance from amis to centre of tail 



Distance from anus to penis 



Total length of intestines 



Total length of small %\ith cacum... 



Total length of large 



Total length of large with ccecum... 



From end of snout to flipper 



Circumference of neck 



Diameter of orifice of eye-lids 



ft. in. 

 8 6 

 6 



1 





 

 

 

 

 

 



1 

 1 







1 

 1 



2 

 1 



2 



1 



115 

 44 

 72 



3^ 

 9.^ 

 4 

 5 



52 

 6^ 

 6 



5^ 

 4 

 8 

 11 

 5 

 7 

 9 

 9 

 2 

 

 

 



2 



ft. 

 6 



60 

 20 

 46 



ft. 

 7 

 4 



37 



64 



65 



1 



2 







a 

 8 

 5 

 4 



43 

 54 

 5i 



11 J 



1 1 



11 

 101 





 8 

 2 

 6 

 9 

 04 



ft. in. 

 6 10* 



3JL 



10 



2 6 



27 6 

 50 



Some prepared specimens belonging to the genera Siphuncnlus 

 and Asterias, collected by Mr. Harvey upon the Devonshire coast, 

 and presented to the Society, were upon the table, to which Mr. Owen 

 drew the attention of the Meeting. The Chairman read an extract 

 of a letter from the former gentleman, in which he stated that a con- 

 siderable number of the Red-band Fish (Cejwla rubescens) had been 

 picked up on the beach near Teignmouth. One of these specimens 

 sent by Mr. Harvey was exhibited by Mr. Yarrell, who observed 



