[ Reprinted, June 2nd 1896, from the ‘‘Proceedings” of the Royal 
Physical Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XITTI.| 
XIII. Report on a Collection of Marine Dredgings and other 
Natural History Materials made on the West Coast of 
Scotland by the late George Brook, F.LS. By THOMAS 
Scott, F.L.S8., Mem. Soc. Zool. de France, Naturalist 
to the Fishery Board for Scotland. [Plate V.] . 
(Read 15th January 1896.) 
On the 4th of October last year (1894) my friend, Mr F. 
G. Binnie, formerly assistant to the late Mr George Brook, 
wrote to me concerning a collection of marine dredgings 
and other material that had been made by Mr Brook at 
various places on the West Coast of Scotland. Mr Binnie, 
with consent of Dr Woodhead, one of Mr Brook’s executors, 
suggested that I might undertake the examination of the 
material, and, if found sufficiently interesting, prepare a 
report on the results of the examination of it. In the letter 
