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good diagnosis, not yet published, 
nia. A. G 
2. Contributions to the Fauna of the Gulf Stream at great 
depths ; by L. F. pz Povurrates, ist. 8. urvey, 
(from the Bulletin of the Mus. Comp. Zoél., Cambridge).—The au- 
thor introduces his paper, describing the species observed by him, 
with the following remarks. 
The study of the constitution and of the inhabitants of the bot- 
tom of the sea is a field of research which has attracted the atten- 
étation on the slopes of the Andes are considered indispensable in 
graphy. But what one man could do 
_ 48 far as the eye could reach, an investigator even as zealous as 
pation of many naturalists; the Scandinavian seas have also been 
t 
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_ Sees, whilst the research extends only over several square yards. 
tis particularly in the greater depths, in the so-called abyssal 
