A. E. Verrill—Results of recent Dredging Expeditions. 405 
Art. XXXIX.— Brief Contributions to Zovlogy from the 
Museum of Yale College. No. XXVIIL Results of recent 
Dredging Expeditions on the Ooast of New England. No. 6; 
by A. E. VERRILL. 
[Continued from vol. vii, page 138.] 
) fathoms, At this place many of the most interesting addi- 
ions to the American fauna were obtained. mong these 
Were several living specimens of Anachis Haliweti (Jeffreys, as 
Columbella), Archaster Parelii, Antedon Sarsii, ma ne 
Ponges, etc. Their dredgings may be conveniently grouped 
as follows: 
1. Muddy Bottoms. 
4.—A series from the muddy bottoms off the coast of Maine, 
from south of Manheigan Island to nearly south of Mt. Desert, 
open Jeffrey's Bank and its vicinity, and extending 60 
hortheast from the extremity of Cape Cod, in 117 and 142 
fathoms, soft mud. (See numbers 36 and 387.) : 
4—Two dredgings made in the central of Massachu 
setts Bay, on muddy bottoms, in 50 and 46 fathoms. 
