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my hands for examination, together with his drawings, measure- 
ments and notes. The largest specimen had a total length of 14 
fect, but the ends of the tentacular arms had been destroyed ; 
length from tail to root of arms, 102 inches; to front edge of man- 
tle, 91°5 inches; width across fins, 42 inches; diameter of body, 18 
inches; slender portion of tentacular arms remaining, 61 inches; 
diameter, 2°5 inches; shorter arms (ends and suckers gone), 30 to 
40 inches; diameter of eyes, 1°25 inches; length of pen, 89 inches. 
The eyes were furnished with lids. The few suckers remaining 
Dall on the coast of Alaska. 
10. Comparative Zoology, Structural and Systematic ; by JAMES 
Orton. New York: Harper & Brothers. 8vo, 384 pp. 350 
Wood cuts. 1876.—In the preface to this work the author states 
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that “It is designed solely as a manual of instruction. It is not 
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or statement, however valuable, wh inci 
sary to a clear and adequate conception of the leading principles, 
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ve been more desirable than success. To have excluded all that » 
to the general facts and principles of comparative anat- 
ran and physiology, some portions being treated with perhaps 
inte essary fullness, while others of more general importance and 
Sane Le Bes reproduction and embryology) are treated with 
