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A good deal of faunistic work has been done by 

 students, and a considerable proportion of the Curator's 

 time has been devoted to the collection and preservation 

 of material for class and research purposes, amongst 

 which may be specially mentioned several large series of 

 embryos of Doris tuberculata for Sir C. Eliot. Two of these 

 were preserved from ribbons of spawn deposited in one of 

 the Aquarium tanks, so that it was possible to accurately 

 determine the age of the embryos from day to day. 



Fig. III. — Doris tuberculata and other Nudibranchs. 



The additions made to the list of species recorded 

 from the Irish Sea include the Gtymnoblastic Hydroid 

 found growing upon the carapace of the spiny lobster, 

 Palinurus vulgaris, and upon the walls of the Aquarium 

 tank in which it lived ; the Actiniarian Edwardsia carnea, 

 a number of which were found upon a much worn 

 fragment of limestone which became entangled upon a 

 fisherman's long line and was so hauled up from the sea- 

 bottom ; and the Gephyrean worm Sijnmcidus bernhardus 

 of Forbes, several specimens of which were found 



