
foot was broadly rounded before & somewhat more acutely behind. The color was waxen deepening into orange on the sole & sides of the foot - upper parts blotched with black or dark purple - a depression in the middle anterior part of the sole like a sucker
Foot smooth edges bulbous with a faintly impressed line on each side. 
From a sponge dredged by Capt Hall the same day Apr. 11th. a most remarkable animal probably an annelid was taken. It was of the most brilliant scarlet throughout, the same as the living sponge. It has no mouth eyes or anus visible. The back was rounded oval like a Doris and transversely