2 
THE GEOLOGIST. 
pressure that would upon the surface grind a rock to powder, ar 
studies replete with instruction and value — studies which can b 
turned to a good geological account, and made to bear reference to ; 
past fauna as well as to a living one. I will attempt, therefore, t- 
give an abstract of the valuable contribution to our knowledge o 
animal life in deep sea-zones, which contains the important discovery 
I allude to ;* for as the pamphlet is printed " for private ch'culation,' 
it is only attainable by the few. In it the author not only gives uf 
in one view a resume of our present data upon the subject, but a seriei 
of notes which point, with no uncertain finger, to a great extensioi 
of them. 
Dr. Wallich's zoological labours while on duty entitle him to rani ' 
as no mean associate of the gTeat naturalists to whom he gracefully 
dedicates his notes ; and the modest way in which he introduces ^ • 
strong foundation for a most important inquiry, proves that he looks 
upon scientific experience 
"As an arch wherethro' 
Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades 
For ever and for ever when I move." 
In sounding not quite midway between Cape Farewell and Rock- 
aU, at a point east of Iceland, and in one thousand two hundred and 
sixty fathoms of water, the sounding apparatus brought up an ample 
specimen of coarse gTitty-looking ooze, containing about ninety-five 
per cent, of Glo'higerina-'&\ieW& (an important genus of the Foramini- 
fera) ; while adherent to the lowest fifty fathoms of the line, a number 
of starfishes, belonging to the genus OijTiiocoma, came up. They had 
attached themselves while this part of the line, which had been paid 
out in excess of the depth, rested upon the bottom, not at all cal- 
culating what an upward journey their investigations would cost 
them, and what a greeting they would receive. They continued to 
move freely about for a quarter of an hour after their introduction 
into human society, and from the naturalist nnd his wondering 
* " Notes on the Presence of Animal Life at Vast Depths in the Sea ; with 
Observations on the Nature of the Sea-bed as bearing on Submai-ine Telegraphy." 
By G. C. WaUich, j\[.D., F.L.S., &c. ; natiirahst to the exjDedition despatched in 
1860, under the command of Sir Leopold M'Clintock, to survey the proposed 
North Atlantic telegraph route between Great Britain and America. 1860. 
