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round yolk ; a few near bib (?) ; a few like those of dab; many eggs of 
rockling, chiefly advanced. 
Station I. — Surface, 22nd July 1891. A small number of eggs. 
19 of gurnard; 170 of sprat, with embryos § to nearly encircling yolk ; 
73 of rockling, with embryo \ round yolk ; a few of dragonet. 
Station III. — Bottom, 22nd July 1891. Post-larval pleuronectid, 
5*2 mm. ; gobies, 4 to 5*5 mm. ; young great pipe-fishes, 16 to 22 mm. 
Station V.— Bottom, 22nd July 1891.— Pleuronectid, 7 mm. (dab?), 
eyes symmetrical ; young rockling, 3*8 mm. • young gobies, 3 to 5 mm. 
Station V. — Bottom, 1st October 1891. — Pleuronectid, 11 mm., left 
eye just visible on ridge ; young gobies, 10 to 15 mm. ; young bimacu- 
lated sucker, 7*5 mm. ; young dragonet, 5 mm; 
Station I. — Bottom, 2nd October 1891. — Young whiting, 45 mm., 
with elongated filaments to the pelvic fins. 
Station V. — Bottom, 3rd November 1891. A single young bimacu- 
lated sucker, 8 mm. 
Station V.— Bottom (?), 7th March 1892. 4 eggs of haddock, 1 with 
embryo about f round yolk and with pigment, others \ round yolk ; 2 
eggs of plaice, injured; post-larval Montagu's sucker, 5*2 mm. 
Station I. — Bottom, 8th March 1892. 1 pelagic egg (probably of 
dab), injured ; 3 larval sand-eels, 5 mm., the oil-globule still present in 
the yolk-sac of two ; 5 post-larval Montagu's suckers, 4*5 mm. 
Stations I. and II. — Surface, 8th March 1892. Small collection. 
43 eggs of haddock, with embryo more than J round the yolk ; 13 of long- 
rough dab, with embryo about \ round the yolk ; 3 of cod, with embryo 
more than \ round yolk; 11 of plaice, with embryo about \ round; 5 
of rockling (probably Motella tricirrata), with embryo outlined. 
Station VI. — Surface, 14th April 1892. A comparatively large col- 
lection. Many eggs of haddock ; small number of eggs of cod ; consider- 
able number of the eggs of the long-rough dab, with the embryo § round 
the yolk, and some with pigment — almost ready to hatch ; eggs of 
plaice (about 20), with the embryo at various stages, from \ round yolk to 
almost ready to hatch ; eggs of rockling, with embryo about \ round yolk. 
Station VI. — Bottom, 14th April 1892. Eggs of plaice, haddock, 
cod, dab, sprat, rockling (M. tricirrata), and others, all in a dense mass of 
Sagittse, larval annelids, and crustaceans. Young sand-eels, 5 to 8*5 mm. ; 
young armed bullheads (Agoni), 5 "6 to 7*5 mm. ; young rockling, 
4*5 mm. 
Station I. — Surface, 15th April 1892. A considerable collection. 
Many eggs of haddock at various stages, viz., from J round the yolk to 
a free portion of tail, but not ready to hatch ; a few eggs of cod, embryo 
from J to | round the yolk and with pigment ; a considerable number of 
dab and flounder, embryo from J to f round the yolk ; a few eggs of 
sprat ; about 30 eggs of rockling ; about 30 eggs of long-rough dab, 
embryo from \ round yolk to a considerable portion of the tail free, but 
not ready to hatch ; 5 eggs of plaice, embryo about \ round, to f round 
yolk. 
Station I. — Bottom, 15th April 1892. Moderate collection. A con- 
siderable number of eggs of haddock, about the same stages as the foregoing ; 
a few of cod ; 2 eggs of long-rough dab ; a considerable number of eggs 
of dab and flounder, with embryos \ to -J round the yolk ; a few eggs 
of rockling, with embryo f round yolk. Young clupeoids 6*5 to 7*5 mm. 
- — some of them newly hatched; young sand-eels 6 to 10 mm.; young 
rocklings, 3 to 6 mm. ; post-larval plaice (?), 7*5 mm. 
Larval long-rough dab (?), (PL XV. fig. 2). 
This last specimen is about 3 mm, in length, with the yolk-sac 
