939 THE NATURALIST IN AUSTRALIA. 
The trouble and labour in- 
volved in detaching the larger coral 
specimens here figured from their 
ocean - bed, together with their 
subsequent packing and dispatch, 
were, as may be anticipated, some- 
what considerable. A heavy flat- 
bottomed lighter, with blocks and 
tackle, was requisitioned in the 
first instance to raise the more 
ponderous masses after they had 
been loosened from their attach- 
ment with crowbars and carefully W, Saville-Kent, Photo. 
: ; ; LIVING coRAL, Dendrophyllia axifuga, WITH POLYPS EXPANDED. 
secured in lashings by an experl- ONE HALF NATURAL SIZE. p. 231. 
enced diver. They were then found to be too heavy to be raised on deck and were 
towed in and deposited as high up on the beach as the tide would permit. At low 
ebb they were then uncovered for the space of an hour or two. This circumstance 
permitted of the operation of their bi-section with a cross-cut saw in order to reduce 
them to a calibre that would allow of their being brought on shore and packed for 
[TURBINARIA PELTAT A \ eg 
| Shark’s Bay, W. Australia, 
Saville-Kent Coll 
W. Saville-Kent, Photo. 
