PROF. OWEN ON NEW AND RARE CEPHALOPODA. 147 
“Mr. Banks also, about this time, founda large cuttle-fish, which had just been killed 
by the birds, floating in a mangled condition upon the water ; it was very different from the 
cuttle-fishes that are found in the European seas ; for the arms, instead of suckers, were 
furnished with a double row of very sharp talons, which resembled those of a cat, and 
like them, were retractable into a sheath of skin, from which they might be thrust at 
pleasure. Of this cuttle-fish we made one of the best soups we had ever tasted ” 1, 
The grounds on which I formed a personal acquaintance with such débris of this 
remarkable Cephalopod as might have remained, after it had furnished Lieut. Cook and 
his scientific fellow-voyagers, Banks and Solander, with a welcome change of diet, are 
the following :— 
When preparing, in 1829, my first ‘ Catalogue of the Hunterian Museum ”2, being 
struck with the number of marine oceanic Invertebrata, dissected and undissected 
(Salpe, nos. 119 p, 120, 121-128; Pyrosoma, no. 119¢; Janthina, nos. 154, 155; 
Boltenia, no. 119), which Hunter had obtained, I was informed by Mr. Clift that his 
Master had supplied Mr. (afterwards Sir Joseph) Banks with wide-mouthed stoppered 
bottles, containing alcohol, for the preservation of such marine animals in a state fit for 
dissection, as might be captured in the circumnavigatory voyage about to be under- 
taken by Lieut. Cook. Some of Hunter’s bottles containing the above specimens bore 
a label, J. B., as noted in the ‘ Catalogue.’ It was probable, therefore, that Sir Joseph 
Banks might have stowed viscera and other portions of the great Hook-armed Cuttle 
in one of the bottles for his anatomical friend. 
In preparing the second Catalogue of the series of dissected specimens I came upon 
the following parts of such a Cephalopod :— 
Portions of the arms (Pl. XXXII. figs. 1, 2, & 3)°; a beak with the tongue, radule, and 
surrounding lips (Pl. XXXI. fig. 1)*; a systemic heart-ventricle (Pl. XXXII. fig. 6)*; 
and, among the “ Dry Preparations” was the terminal part of the body with an attached 
pair of rhomboidal fins of a Cephalopod (then No. “1436,” now “E. 1066 ”) answering 
in size to the above specimens in spirits (Pl. XXXI. figs. 2-4, reduced). 
The heart, or part of that complex circulating apparatus in Cephalopoda, differed 
moreover in shape from the systemic ventricle in Octopoda and Sepiade; and I found 
the nearest approach to it, in form, in a small kind of Squid which had hooks upon the 
expanded ends of the tentacles *. 
1 Tom. cit. p. 70. 
* © Catalogue of the Contents of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Fasciculus I., com- 
prehending the First Division of the Preparations of Natural History in Spirit (Vegetabilia and Animalia 
evertebrata)’, 4to, 1830, p. 33. 
> Op. cit. p. 33. 
* ‘Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of Comparative Anatomy in the Museum 
of the Royal College of Surgeons in London,’ vol. i. 4to, 1832, p. 15, no. 63; 2nd ed., Syo, 1852, p. 15, no. 63. 
* Ibid. vol. ii. 4to, 1833, p. 84, no. 808; 2nd ed., 8vo, 1852, p. 84, no. 308. 
* Deser. and Il. Cat. vol. ii. no. 902 a, p. 35; and no, 166 p, Nat.-Hist.-Series Cat. ut supra, p. 33. 
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