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Notes on Zoophytes aud Sponges obtained by Mr. F. Day off the 

 East Coast of Scotland. By Stuabt O. Etoley, M.A., 

 E.L.S. 



[ReaclDecember21, 1882.] 



SpECiMEisrs from two of the stations investigated by Mr. F. Day 

 in the ' Triton ' in 1882 were submitted to me for examination aud 

 report. These stations ai'e : — 1. (Dredge No. 2) Lat. 56° 54' N"., 

 long. 0° 33' W., or about the same latitude as Stonehaven (Kin- 

 cardine) ; and 2. (Trawl No. 3) Lat. 57° 7' N., long. 0° 37' W., 

 the latitude lying midway between Stonehaven and Aberdeen ; 

 the depth was 42 fathoms in the one case and 40 fathoms in 

 the other, and the distance from shore considerable. Thus 

 the ground which has contributed the specimens below noticed 

 forms part of the great plateau of moderately deep water which 

 surrounds Grreat Britain and occupies the greater part of 

 the Grerman Ocean, and of which the Dogger Bank and other 

 banks are slightly elevated portions. G-round very near this 

 was investigated by the Grerman exploring expedition in the 

 vessel ' Pommerania ' in 1872-73*. That expedition crossed the 

 North Sea diagonally from N.E. towards S.W., viz. from Bergen in 

 Norway to opposite Peterhead, and then passed down the coast, at 

 some little distance from it, and entered the Pirtli of Forth. 

 The present dredgings represent perhaps somewhat more eastern 

 localities. That expedition obtained, like the present one, com- 

 paratively few Polyzoa near this point, but, unlike it, a consider- 

 able number of species of Hydroids ; of this latter group but 

 one species is included in the material which 1 have examined. 

 With the exception of the results of the Grerman Government 

 expedition just mentioned, and of some specimens (of Hali- 

 chondria panicea, Johnst.) from the Dogger Bank, now in the 

 British Museum, nothing has been, so far as I am aware, hitherto 

 known of the Sponge-fauna of the German Ocean at a distance 

 from the land. 



Polyzoa. 



The Grerman expedition obtained Fhtstra foliacea and Gemel- 

 laria loriculata off Peterhead, but few between that place and 

 the Firth. The only species which I have to mention are two. 



* See ' Jaliresbericht der Kommission zur wissenschaftlichen Untei-sucliimg 

 der deutschen Meere in Kiel.' Berlin, foL, 1875. 



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