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than a similar arm of the New York specimen [No. 14], and he 
describes it as thicker than a man’s thigh.” 
fo. 20.—Banquereau specimen, 1879. 
This consists of the terminal part of a tentacular arm, which 
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peeretion in strong alcohol, now measures 1 inches in 
ength. It includes all the terminal club, and a small portion 
of the naked arm below it. 
No. 22.— Brigus specimen, 1879. 
Mr. Harvey states that portions of another large squid were 
cast ashore near Brigus, Conception Bay, in October, 1879. 
Two of the short arms, each measuring eight feet in length, 
were found, with other mutilated parts, after a storm. 
No. 28.— James's Cove specimen, 1879. 
From Mr. Harvey I have also recently received an account 
of another specimen, which was captured entire about the first 
of November last, at James’s Cove, Bonavista Bay, N. F. ; 
“Mr. Thomas Moores and several others saw something 
\nto a punt, they went alongside, when they were surprised to 
see a monster squid. One of the men struck at it with an oar, 
and it immediately struck for the shore, and went quite upon 
the beach. The men then succeeded in getting a rope around 
Hk and hauled it quite ashore. It measured 38 feet altogether. 
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the fishermen, as usual, immediately destroyed it, and probably 
Archileuthis Harveyi Verrill. (Harvey's giant squid). 
Trans. Conn. Acad., v, p. 197, Plates xiii to xvia, Dec., : 
M tb haven Konk B, . London, 1874, p. 178. : 
—— harveyi Kent, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, : ha Tt, Pl. i, if, iv, 
1875; vol. xii, p. 236, 1876; American Naturalist, vol. ix, pp. 22, 78, figs. 1-6, 
10, 1875 (? non Steenstrup). 
Omehaslegher havc Kent, sii Zool. Soc. London, 1874, p. 492. 
