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tu the total amouiTt of $221^994 was imported to Singapore, 
vi^. $44,818 from Celebes, 157,627 from other parts of the 
Netherlands Archipelago. $31,998 from British North Borneo, 
$21,975 from the Sulu Archipelago, and the balance from 
elsewhere. The total exports dtirmg; the year amounted to 
5442,102, Hongkong taking $315, 882 and China $134,695. 
The Dendrochimta have feelers which are branched in a 
tree-like fashiun. They include some attractive looking species, 
like Cohchirm coenileHs^ dredged off Tan ah Merah, Singapore, 
which has teat-like processes, and HiiphdacMii sp., from Pasir 
Panjang, which is semi-transparent and of pinkish colour. 
The Symiptida differ from the other Holothurians by the 
total absence of lube-feel. Some of them are of surprising 
beauty when seen in their natural element, with their clear and 
transparent skin, and with body and tentacles fully expanded. 
Some are two and more teet in length and M to i inch in thick- 
ness. Unfortunately they break up when taken out of the 
water and fadi; almost into nothing, unless special precautions 
are taken. 
SEA LILIES AND FEATHER STARS 
{Cnnouka). 
The Crinoids differ from the other classes of the Echino- 
derms by possessing a stalk, at least in their young stages, with 
which they are fixed to the bottom of the sea or some other 
object, and by their mouth being always directed upwards. 
The arms are well developed and are beset with a double row 
of short branches called ' pinnules.' The Crinoids were abund- 
ant in former periods of the earth, but only five families have 
survived to the present day, two of which are represented in the 
Museum, the Pcntacrhikiae and the Comaiidkhu. 
The Pentiicrinkiae or Sea Lilies, including the two genera 
Pentacrimts and Metacrinus. occur only in great depths of the 
sea. The have long stems which are beset with whorls of 
branches, called ' cirri,* All the specimens in the Museum are 
from telegraph cables and were presented by Mr. W, Maclear 
Ludds. The largest of thcni is from the China Sea, lat. 19' 18' N,, 
long 120 14' E., from a depth of 114 fathoms. 
The Comattdidae or Feather Stars are stalked only during 
their early stages. They soon lose the stalk which in adult 
specimens is represented merely by a- stump bearing a number 
uf 'cirri ' which correspond to the organs of the same name iji 
