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considerable success at depths from 380 to 994i 

 fathoms (Stations 14-16) : the wind and sea had now 

 gone down; and we took with the scoop-net a few 

 living specimens of Clio cuspidata. The dredgings in 

 380 and 469 fathoms yielded among the moUusca 

 Leda lucida (Norwegian and a Sicilian fossil), Axmus 

 eumyarius (also Norwegian), Necera ohesa (Spitz- 

 hergen to the West of Ireland), Odostomia, n. sp., O. 

 minuta (Mediterranean), and CeritJiium, n. sp. ; and 

 among the echinoderms were Brisinga endecacnemos 

 and Asteronyx loveni. But the results of the dredg- 

 ing in 994 fathoms were so extraordinary as to excite 

 our utmost astonishment. It being late in the even- 

 ing, the contents of the dredge could not be sifted 

 and examined until daylight the next morning. We 

 then saw a marvellous assemblage of shells, mostly 

 dead, but comprising certain species which we had 

 always considered as exclusively northern, and others 

 which Mr. Jeffreys recognized as Sicilian tertiary fos- 

 sils, while nearly 40 per cent, of the entire number 

 of species were undescribed, and some of them repre- 

 sented new genera. The following is an analysis of 

 the moUusca perfect and fragmentary taken in this 

 one haul: — 



