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pieces ; and the belted neck supporting the anterior 
extremities, and the carpal bones; and the vertebrx 
sustaining the pelvic apparatus; and all that curious 
eircling in of the cranium, which makes it all head 
and wings, and obtains for it the name of cophalern, 
The sunning out of the great living mass by swim- 
ming at the surface is to obtain the necessary degree 
of warmth for the maturation of the fetus. ‘Their 
sexual companionship results from their impregnat- 
ing in coitu, and bringing forth an ovo-viviparous 
offspripg.* 

The animal of spirula is one of the desiderata of na= 
tural history. If one would appreciate duly the extent 
to which the subject affects scientific intelligence, 
he has only to consult Dr. Buckland’s Bridgewater 
Treatise on Geology, ch. xv. sect. vi—where he tells 
us that from Peron’s discovery of the shell of a spi- 
rula_partially enclosed within the body of a sepia, 
we ascertain the nature and organization of the ex- 
dinct ammonites of the earliest transition strata, 
down to those of the most recent secondary forma- 
ions. ‘The interior of the ammonites was divided 
into nomerouschambers by transverse plates, pierced 

* On the 4th May: a devil fish was taken in the har- 
vour of Montego Bay. Itis a very unusual place for a. 
fish of the habits we have mentioned, there being no 
bank there to accommodate them when breeding. I 
suspect, however, on the opposite coast of Cuba in the 
shoals of the Jardinas keys, they are common, and the 
one taken in this North-side harbour, had been driven 
over in the late boisterous weather. I understand ano- 
sher was seen at the same time. 
