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h ting its general accordance with that of Antedon. The second part of the 
i memoir and its two last plates are devoted to the development of Antedon 
Sarsii, differing in several interesting particulars from that of A. rosa- 
ceus, as elucidated by Wyville Thomson and Carpenter. The reader who 
te sity of Christiania, enablin ng him to devote himself almost exclusively to 
i scientific pursuits, without being disturbed by the professional duties 
ineumbent on most other scientific men, as curators of museums, lec- 
though in a somewhat advanced age, continues his scientific work, as 
Well as the enlightened liberality of the Representation who did not hesi- 
tate to give an unusual position to a man capable of doing eg unusual work. 
; In the ** Proceedings of the Academy of Christiania,” for 1867, of which 
= Twas formerly only capable of giving an incomplete report, you will find 


sid iean series coilected by Dr. Packard, in Mai 
kon fe Sates of twenty-nine species, twenty-one of which are 
ody dea the Norw wegian formations, while of the rest three or four 










kno , acia C di, 
Wn from this i of the Atlantic, neither in the fossil nor the recent 
ineata,* Thra onra aa Aporrhais ialah iis are not 

NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
_ HO. 
ZOOLOGY. 
Finner Wuate.—The Academy of Natural Sciences has just 
ed the perfect skeleton of a whale from the coast of Maryland. It 
* finner, of the genus Sibbaldius Gray, and is half-grown sit orny 






retica, a circumpolar species.—A. S. P. . 
