404 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
m. 
will shortly be published by Mr. Moseley. The animal is of a rich 
violet color. * * #* 
Sea-pens and Gorgoniz have occurred frequently, always remar k- 
able for their brilliant hosphorescence, Captain Maclear is giving 
special attention to this beautiful phenomenon. A Mopsea, which 
a 
specimen, with a stem 3 ft. long, at a depth of 2,115 fathoms off 
Cape St. Vincent. 
As usual in deep-sea work sponges preponderated, and the order. 
has added several novelties, chiefly referable to the Ventriculite 
group, the Hexactinellide. 
ome fine new species of Aphrocallistes came up along the coast 
The physical and chemical observations will be fully detailed 
hereafter. The temperatures off the Coast of Portugal corr 
ponded very closely with those taken in the Porcupine in 1870, 
and the Shearwater in 1871, below the first 100 fathoms, through 
which at this season the temperature is nearly uniform. 
- LVew York Central Park.—Second Annual Report of the 
Board of Commissioners. 253 pp. 8vo. New York. 1872.—The 
Central Park in New York is one of the public works of which 
