Geologg aud Natural Hisiory. 159 
Full accounts of this adventure, written by Mr. M. Harvey, have 
been published in many of the newspapers.* One of the severed 
arms, or a part of it, was preserved in the museum at St. John, 
and a photograph of it is now before me. This fragment repre- 
sents the distal half of one of the long tentacular-arms, with its ex- 
panded terminal portion covered with suckers, 24 of which are 
larger, in two rows, with the border not serrate, but 1°25 inch in 
diameter; the others are smaller, very numerous, with the edge 
Supported by a serrated calcareous ring. The part of : the arm pre- 
Served measured 19 feet in length, and 3°5 inches in cireumfereuce, 
but wider, “like an oar,” and 6 inches in circumference, near the — 
end where the suckers are situated; but its Jength, when entire, 
was estimated at 42 feet.t The other arm was destroyed and no 
description was made, but it was said to have been 6 feet long and 
10 inches in diameter; it was evidently one of the eight shorter 
Sessile arms. The estimate given for the length of the “body” of 
this creature (60 feet) was probably intended for the entire length, 
including the arms. 
3). A specimen was found alive in shallow water, at Coomb’s 
Cove, and captured, Concerning this on 
ae accounts. It is stated that its body measured ten feet in 
an 
Were six feet in length, but about nine inches in diameter, “ very 
stout and strong ;” the suckers had a serrated edge. The color was 
reddish. The loss of one long arm and the correspondence of the 
other in size to the one amputated from No. 2, justifies a suspic- 
ton that this was actually the same individual that attacked the 
But if not, it was probably one of the same species, and of 
e size. 
* Also in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, January, 1874, with a 
Wood-cut of the arm. d like 
+ Doubtless these long arms are very contractile and changeable in length li 
those of the ordinary squids. 
