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Canadian Grovernment ; it may fitly bear the name o£ that naturalist, 

 CeUej)ora Whitecwesi. The Shetland Memhranipora sacculata, Norman, 

 furnished here another link between our fauna and that of the Green- 

 land seas. The more remarkable Foraminifera in the locality were 

 Trochammina gordialis, Parker and Jones, Lituola Canariensis, D'Orb., 

 Textularia hiformis, Parker and Jones, and Bolivina punctata, D'Orb. 



Godhavn Hat-hour, Disco, 5-20 fat7io7ns. 

 There are certain common British Invertebrata which are equally 

 abundant on the Greenland coast. These animals are for the most part 

 also circumpolar in their distribution ; conspicuous amongst these are 

 Hi/as aranea (Linn.) and coarctata. Leach (of gigantic size), Eupagurus 

 pvJ)escens (Kroyer), Solaster papposus (Linn.), Opliiopliolis aculeata (Miill.). 

 With these in Godhavn Harbour were associated Chionecetes opilio 

 (Fabr.), Argis Lar (Owen), Hippolyte Fahricii, Kroyer, and turgida, 

 Kroyer, Ampelisca Eschrichtii, Kr., and Haploops tuhicola, Lilljeborg, these 

 two Amphipods being in great abundance. Among many Ostracoda were 

 the rare Cytliere horealis, G. S. Brady, canadensis, G. S. Brady, and an 

 undescribed species of the same genus ; and Cgtherura gmnulata, G. S. 

 Brady, and cristata, G. S. Brady, the two latter species being only pre- 

 viously known as fossil in the Posttertiary deposits of Canada. The 

 great sea-cucumber, Cucumaria frondosa (Gunn), was living in company 

 with C. calcigera, Agas., Chirodota Zcei'g (Fabr.), Asterias alhula, 

 Stimpson, Ophiacantha hidentata (Eetz.), and Opliioglyplia rohusta (Ayr). 

 Of the Polyzoa may be named: — Scrupocellaria scahm,YaT. elongata, Smitt; 

 Biigula Murragana, yslv. fruticosa, Packard; Lepralia cruenta, sinuata, 

 ansata, acutirostris ; Cellepora plicata, Smitt ; and' Hippothoa divaricata, 

 Lamx., — the true form, and not my H. eapansa, which is much more 

 abundant in the Arctic seas, and has probably been frequently recorded 

 under the former name. Among thirfcy-six Foraminifera identified from 

 this locality are Dentalina consohrina, D'Orb. (or the form figured under 

 this name by Parker and Jones), Pohjmorphina Burdigalensis, D'Orb., 

 Pidlenia sphceroide^, D'Orb., Venieuilina polystroplia, Eeuss, Cassidulina 

 ohtusa, D'Orb., Pulvinulina Karsteni^ Eeuss, and Discorhina ohtusa, 

 D'Orb. 



A small quantity of material examined from the harbour con- 

 sists of a ferruginous mud, which contained large quantities of the 

 tubes of Pectinaria and of another more delicate Annehd. The Fora- 

 minifera among this mud were specially interesting, as exhibiting a 

 marked parallelism with those recorded by Mr. G. M. Dawson from 

 Gaspe Bay in the Gulf of St. Lawrence*. Of the twenty-eight Lievely- 

 Bay species, twenty-two are also in Mr. Dawson's Gaspe-Bay list ; and 



* On Foraminifera from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, by Gr. M. Dawson, (' Canadian 

 Naturalist; 1870). 



