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haul of Invertebrates when emptied on the deck. 

 Probably our most interesting capture with the dredge 

 was the Giant Sea-Pen {Funiculina quadr angular is , 

 which was recorded* as follows in a letter which was sent 

 to "Nature" from the " Runa " on July 11th:— 



" Marine Biologists may be interested to hear that 





Fig. 20. S. Y. " Kuna " with the "Agassiz " dredge coming up at the stern. 



the bed, near Oban, of the largest British Pennatulid 

 Funiculina quadrangularis , and the smaller Virgularia 

 mirabilis described by Mr. W. P. Marshall and the late 

 Professor Milnes Marshall, in 1881 or 1882 (I have no 

 books of reference with me), is still apparently in very 

 flourishing condition. In a couple of hauls of the small 

 Agassiz trawl, from this yacht yesterday, between the 

 islands of Kerrera and Lismore, at depths of eighteen 

 to twenty fathoms, I got about a dozen fine specimens of 



"Nature," July 20th, 1911, p. 77. 



