MARINE LIFE.- Jl 



not red as in the common five-finger, also abundant. 

 The polar star-fish is common in Greenland, and is a 

 truly arctic form. 



The common cxdih (^Cancer zrroraia) irequently oc- 

 curred under stones, but the lobster was neither seen nor 

 heard of ; though common on the southern shores of 

 Newfoundland it does not reach north into the Strait of 

 Belle Isle. Among the worms which occurred at low- 

 water mark was the Pectinaria. On the New England 

 coast it only occurs in deep water below tide mark. 



Dredgings were first made at the mouth of Salmon 

 River, a few rods from shore, in some eight fathoms of 

 water in a firm deep mud. The most characteristic 

 shells were gigantic Aphrodite grcenlandica, large cock- 

 les {Cardium islandicum), as well as the pelican's foot 

 (^Aporrhais occidentalis), which occurred of good size 

 and in profusion. In the soft mud occurred multitudes 

 of the neat little sand star {Ophioglypha nodosa). An- 

 other form dredged on rocky bottom was Cynthia pyin- 

 formis, or the sea peach, and large specimens were cast 

 up by the waves on the beach. Every spare day was 

 given to dredging, and having been deeply interested in 

 marine zoology by the writings of Gosse, in England, 

 and of Stimpson in this country, and having obtained a 

 good idea of the local marine fauna of Casco Bay, in 

 Maine, it was with no little interest and expectation 

 that we dropped the dredge in arctic waters, and we 

 were not a little delighted with the result of finding so 

 near shore and in such shallow water, forms which off 

 the coast of Maine, in deep water, were rare and usually 

 but half grown. 



July 25th a party of us rowed up Salmon Bay and 



