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the immediate payment of a good round sum, but tlie offer was- 

 declined. He died of consumption, aged twenty-seven, and Prof. 

 Schrotter said that Schlesinger might have lived to any age had his 

 lungs been sound, while his family strongly objected to the post- 

 7uorteut examination desired by the medical faculty." Again, at an 

 inquest held on an infant, at Battersea in London, in 1901, the 

 coroner remarked that the posl-tuortetn examination revealed that the 

 child had its heart on the right side, a phenomenon so rare that it 

 did not occur once in 10,000 cases. Modern medical works throw 

 no light on these phenomena, but Pliny does say, in writing on the 

 spleen: — "It is attached to the left side, opposite the liver, though 

 sometimes this arrangement is found reversed; but that is a prodigy."' 



B. humphreysianum Benn. — S.W. Ireland, 8of. (R.I. A. cruise); 

 the Minch off Loch Boisdale, 72f., a very young specimen (J.T.M.); 

 between the Butt of Lewis and St. Kilda, 90-1 oof., and North Sea, 

 74f. (Simpson) ! Some shells exhibited under this name at one of 

 the Conchological Society's meetings, and alleged as coming from 

 Jersey, either could not have been this species or they could not have 

 come from Jersey. 



var. ventricosum Kien. {Joiu-n. of Conch., 1893, vol. vii., p. 

 261).- — South of Ireland (R.I. A. cruise) ! Gwyn Jeffreys records in 

 "British Conchology " a var. lacteum, but without locality; that locality 

 should be "Shetlands." A pretty variety, also from the Shetlands, 

 has a white zone below the suture of each whorl, as well as on the 

 outer lip. This species can scarcely be mistaken for B. iindaticm var. 

 zetlandica ; it has no palpable epidermis at any stage of growth, the 

 aperture is reflected outwards, and the embryo is different. Sowerby's 

 is the better figure, but the apical whorls are incorrect ; they should 

 be as Jeffreys'. 



The B. hydrophanuin of Hancock was dredged by the 'Triton' in 

 the Shetland-Faroe Channel, and the same species with B. morchi 

 Friele by the 'Knight Errant' in the same district. 



Buccinopsis dalei J. Sow. ^Atlantic off Ireland, 345f (R.I. A. 

 cruise); west of St. Kilda, loof (Hoyle) ; Aberdeenshire, 40 miles off 

 Rattray Head (Kelly) ! Buchan Deeps, 70 miles east of Aberdeen ; 

 North Sea, 53f ; Fair Isle Bank, midway between the Orkneys and 

 Shetlands; and off the Shetlands, 11 if (Simpson) ! West of Ireland 

 (Irish Fishery Board) ! 



There is considerable difference between the shells of the male 

 and female of this species, the former being oblong and the latter 

 oval. Sowerby's figure well illustrates the female form, and Jeffreys' 

 getieric figure the male, though the latter has the whorls too convex 



I Book xi., p. 80. 



