Aleyonarian and Madreporarian Corals in the Museum of Bergen. Di 
Polar-Expedition dredged, during the drift of the “Tegetthoff” 
in the pack-ice, two small fragments in the sea between Franz 
Joseph’s Land and Nova Zembla (resp. %s 1873: 79° 0.4' N, 
sv 29.7, Ei 183 Me and ?7/7 1873: 78° 58.5 N, 60° 25.5 EB; 
260 M.); unfortunately no bottom temperatures are recorded). 
Wright and Studer (1. c. p. 290) give as the distribution: 
“Coast of Norway, and in deep water at Setubal, off the coast 
of Portugal”. As to the latter locality I have not been able 
to find in the literature any other statement confirming the 
occurrence of the species here. The numerous dredgings off 
the Atlantic coasts of western Europe have as yet yielded no 
evidence; no Paragorgia has been recorded from the cruises 
made by the “Porcupine”, “Helga”, “Huxley”, *Caudan”, 
“Travailleur”’, “Talisman” etc.; and I may add that not a 
single specimen has been taken by the “Ingolf”, ,Thor” and 
“Michael Sars” in the Seas of Iceland and the Feerges nor 
by any of the fishing vessels working in these regions. Jud- 
ging from these facts it seems most likely to me that the 
distribution of Paragorgia arborea on the European side of 
the North Atlantic is restricted to that eastern part which is 
as it were separated from the rest by the deep cold basin 
stretching from the Polar Sea like a wedge far south into the 
Norwegian Sea’). 
On the American side of the Atlantic, however, Paragorgia 
arborea again turns up. It is recorded here by Verrill 1862 
(1864, 1. c. p. 10; a single specimen obtained in the Bay of 
Fundy by a fisherman); and later, 1878, Verrill en passant 
mentions (sub Acanella Normani, Am. Journ. Sc. XVI, p. 213) 
that: “Fine specimens of Primnoa reseda and Paragorgia ar- 
borea are often taken in the same region from which Ac. 
Normani were obtained, as well as from the depression be- 
tween St. George’s and Le Have Banks, in 200 to 250 fathoms. 
huc Petropolin missa accepit Amicus.“ It appears to me, however, not to 
be excluded that the Parag. arb. might have been brought by Norwegian 
fishermen or traders to Archangelsk. On the other hand, if we remember 
the find of the “Tegetthoff’, the species probably may occur also in the 
White Sea. 
1) A species Paragorgia Johnsoni Gray, said to resemble the Nor- 
wegian species, found at Madeira, is described by Gray in Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (3). Vol. X, 1862, p. 125. From the description it is impossible to 
decide if this P. really is specifically different from arborea. 
