688 RECORDS. 



Doctor Linville then reported on his trip to Puget Sound. 

 The party consisted of five members : Dr. H. R. Linville of 

 the Boys' High School, New York City ; Professor M. A. Barber 

 of the University of Kansas ; Professor E. Morrison of Pacific 

 College, Oregon, and Dr. Linville's father and brother. The work 

 of collecting was not divided among the members of the party, 

 except that Professor Barber gave his entire time to the examina- 

 tion of the flora, while the other working members of the party 

 studied the fauna without reference to particular groups. The 

 methods of collecting employed were " towing," shore collecting, 

 pile collecting and dredging. The towing was attended with no 

 great success, the shore collecting was very profitable, but the 

 greatest interest was in the pile collecting and the dredging. 

 The material collected from all sources abundantly represented 

 every large group except the Protozoa and the Chordates. The 

 collection has not yet been studied systematically. 



Enormous quantities of Noctiliicea have been reported to be 

 present in Scow Bay, a long, narrow inlet two miles from the 

 town, but at the time the bay was explored by the party, Noc- 

 tilucea were not seen. Large red and yellow sponges and a 

 form resembling Grantia represented the Sponges. 



The Coelenterates were found in great abundance. There 

 were many representatives of a form resembling Obclia and 

 another form resembling Tuhidaria. Medusas allied to Zygo- 

 dactyla occurred in great numbers about the docks. Thal- 

 inantias also was abundant and so were many unidentified forms. 

 The Scyphomedusse were represented by Cyanca. The Anem- 

 ones were represented by at least five species, the largest of 

 these being a white Metridiiim, specimens of which frequently 

 exceeded 1 2 inches in length. This species studded the piles 

 to the depth of 20 feet below low tide mark. Another, a large 

 orange-colored Mctridhuii , was dredged in ten fathoms of water 

 in Scow Bay. In the same situation were found small bluish- 

 green forms with slender elongate tentacles. A large mottled, 

 red and green anemone, ^^"ith large bag-like tentacles was 

 obtained ; the latter, howe\-er, were also to be found on the 

 piles. Most numerous were the small sand-anemones found 



