No. 418.] NOTES ON LIVING NAUTILUS. 837 
1900, he noticed eggs attached to a fish-cage in which Nautilus 
had been taken : there were several eggs, he did not remember 
how many, but they were attached not far from one another, 
and stood up on end, each as big as two joints of his finger, 
and with a leathery skin. Their color was white, and—this 
was the curious part of his story —they had brown markings 
across them! which reminded him of those on the shell of the 
adult animal. It was from the latter feature that he was sure 
the eggs belonged to Nautilus. His account seemed to me 
worth repeating, since it is hardly probable that he could have 
invented offhand so tolerably accurate a story, or that he would 
have been apt to describe an object which has nothing to 
do with eggs of Nautilus and yet resembles them so clearly. 
Moreover, there is a greater probability of accuracy when one 
considers that such a man is apt to be a skillful observer in mat- 
ters relating to his work, —a thing which a stay-at-home zoól- 
ogist often finds hard to realize. I was assured on every hand 
that small specimens of Nautilus are relatively common during 
the fishing season ; that specimens whose shell is the size of 
à silver dollar are often thrown away, and that still smaller 
specimens are occasionally taken, in spite of the large mesh 
of the fish-cage. 
! Could these be the rows of foldings and “fenestrations " of the outer egg 
capsule which Willey described (ature, 1897, p. 402)? 
