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important work, did not end with his death, but its continuation 
has been undertaken by one well fitted to perform the task. The 
present edition, while including much new matter, retains the form 
and a arrangement of those Nicer have arene ed ex — in one 
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Ill. Borany AND ZooLoey. 
Occurrence qe race gigantic Cephalopod on the coast of 
Naitountont: EK. Verritt.—A nearly perfect specimen 
of a large mee oa rang cast ashore after a severe gale, a 
Catalina, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Sept. 24. It was living 
when found. It was fpraoee for two or three days at St. Johns, 
and subsequently was carried in brine to New York, where it was 
purchased by Reiche “& ae for the New York Aquarium, where 
T have had an PDE to examine it.* Although somewhat 
mutilated, and not in a very good state of preservation when 
received, it is of great chara pings, without doubt, the largest 
and best specimen ever preserve t proves to be Architeuthis 
princeps, formerly described by me, from the jaws alone, in this 
Journal.t The jaws agree well in form and color with the large 
ie sessile arms (ventral ones) 11 feet; circumference at base 17 
inches. Length of upper mandible 5°25 inches; diameter of large 
su bdokets 1 inch; diameter of eye-sockets 8 inches. The eyes were 
matty a sagittate in form. The rims of the eps suckers are 
white, with very acutely serrate margins, and the small smooth- 
rimmed suckers, Wives a gas iohea tubercles, are distantly 
scattered along most of the inner face of the tentacular arms, the 
last ones noticed pette nipetesn feet from the tips. The sessile 
ones being somewhat shorter and smaller than the others ; the 
serrations are smaller on the inner edge than on the outer of the 
* When examined by me it was loose in a tank of alcohol. I learn that it has 
i inserted two 
Vol. ix, p. 181. Plate V, figs. 14, 15, March, 18 
Measurements soc the — caught specimen were made by Rev. M. Harvey, 
at St. Johns, and co cated to 
