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surface, and when they die their shells settle to the 

 hottom.^ 



The next high authority who expressed an opinion 

 was Professor Huxley, and he was very guarded. The 

 samples procured by Capt. Dayman in the 'Cyclops,' 



Fia 3. — Orlmlina nniversa, D'Orbigny. Highly magnified. 



in 1857, were submitted to him for examination, and 

 in his report to the Admiralty^ in 1858 he says :■ — 



^ Explanations and Sailing Directions to accompany the Wind and 

 Currents Charts. By M. F. Maury, LL.D., Lieut. U.S K, Super- 

 intendent of the National Obseivatory. 6th Edition. Philadelphia, 

 1864 P. 299. 



' Appendix A to Deep Sea Soundings in the North Atlantic Ocean 

 between Ireland and Newfoundland, made in H.M.S. ' Cyclops,' 

 Lieut.-Commander Joseph Dayman, in June and July 1857. Pub- 

 lished by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 

 London, 1858. 



