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Distribution, &c. 
MObius (7) enumerates the Chcetopoda (76), Turhellaria (14), Ge- 
Xjhyrea (6), SagiUm (2), and Malacohdellce (1) dredged during the cruise 
of the “ Pommerania ” in 1872, in the Danish Seas and Skagerrak, off 
the Norwegian and British shores and in the North Sea. Most of them 
are “ eury thermous ” ; 23 have a very wide geographical distribution. 
The Dogger Bank appears to be the boundary between the northern and 
southern species. The localities, their depth and the nature of the 
bottom, the abundance or scarcity o^ the individuals are noted ; short de- 
scriptive or synonymical remarks are sometimes appended, certain nominal 
species (c/. below) cancelled, &c. The lists of the Annelida, Echipo- 
derms, Ccelenterata, and Sponges of St. Andrews [Zool. Rec. xi. p. 492] 
are reprinted in the “ Marine Invertebrates and Fishes of St. Andrews ” 
(Edinburgh and London : 1875), by W. 0. McIntosh. In the intro- 
ductory chapter on the Annelida, their occurrence, habitats, phospho- 
rescence, Ac., are spoken of. A. E. Verrill, “ Results of dredging 
expeditions off the New England coast in 1874” (Am. J. Sci. [3] ix. 
pp. 411-415, and x. pp. 32-36, 196-192). The Annelida, Bdellodea, 
Gephyrea, Turhellaria, EcTiinodermata, Acalephce, and Anthozoa new to 
Southern New England, are enumerated, pp. 39-43 ; among them are 
several new species. The total number of Chcetopoda known from the G ulf 
.of Marseilles, according to Marion & Bobretzky(5)[Zoo1. Rec. xi.p.493], 
is now 96. Panceri (8) enumerates the Gymnocopa, Chcetopoda, Hiradinea, 
Gephyrea, and Turhellaria of the Mediterranean ; a few are new {vide in- 
fra). An abstract of Ehlers’ paper on the bathymetrical distribution of 
the Chcetopoda [Zool. Rec. xi. p. 493], is contributed to Arch. Z. exper.iv. 
pp. xlix.-liii. ; cf. also Nature, xiii. p. 74, and Arch. Sci. Nat. lii. pp. 78-80. 
A few remarks by R. V. Willemoes-Suhm, of the “ Challenger Expedi- 
tion, on i\iQ Annelida of the deeper portions of the Pacific Sea (G^/ycerea, 
Aphroditacea, Opheliidce, Clymenidce, Myriochele, Sternaspis, and on its 
pelagic surface species (A Iciope) ; Z. wiss. Zool. xxv. pp. xxxii.-xxxviii. A 
revised list of the Annulata, Discophora, Gephyrea, &c., of Greenland has 
been compiled by the Recorder for the “ Manual of the Natural History, 
&c., of Greenland and the neighbouring regions, prepared for the use of 
the Arctic Expedition of 1875,” edited by T. Rupert Jones, London : 
1875, pp. 167-178. Mobius’s Guide to the Collecting of Invertebrate Ani- 
mals (G. Neumayer, Anleitung zu wissenschaftlichen Beobachtuugen auf 
Reisen, Berlin: 1875, pp. 418-432), with special remarks on Worms, 
Echinoderms, Polyps and Jelly-fishes, Sponges, and Rhizopods, may also 
be conveniently cited here. Perrier records (10, a) the occurrence in 
the subterranean water reservoir of the “ Jardin des Plantes,” in the com- 
pany of Dreissena and Cordylophora, of Tuhifex umhellifer (Kessl.) (first 
discovered in Lake Onega, afterwards in the Thames). A note by S. J. 
Whitmee (P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 496-502) “ On the habits of Palolo 
viridis ” shows, that the regular re-appearance of the “ Palolo ” on the 
coral reefs of the Fiji Islands is for the purpose of propagating. The 
brown (male) and green (female) worms break spontaneously in pieces 
