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pennant’s globefish. 
as regards the structure which hy nature had been provided 
for its defence, but which had in these instances become the 
means of leading to its destruction. These two examples were 
taken about the same time and nearly at the same place, near 
Penzance; one of them on the 27th. of August, and the other 
on the 17th. of September; and it is remarkable that a specimen 
caught at St. Ives was obtained on the 29th. of September of 
the same year. 
The first of these was observed by some schoolboys near the 
rocks, as it floated with its distended globe uppermost. It was 
incapable of making its escape, and was secured by placing a 
basket under it; and it was immediately conveyed to Mr. E. 
Q. Couch, by whom a figure of it was taken, and which is 
now the original of our representation, together with a description; 
both of which are beyond question more characteristic than 
such as have been derived from specimens that have suffered 
distortion from the manner in which they have been preserved. 
Our second example was first seen by a boy floating with 
its distended globe uppermost; but although within his reach 
he was not able to secure it; and when afterwards it was 
discovered hy boys the inflation had disappeared. On their 
meddling with it it assumed the natural position, but in its 
efforts to escape it only made a circuit in the water. For a 
time it gradually passed seaward in an apparently exhausted 
condition; but in passing near a projecting portion of the rocks 
it was taken on shore, and immediately conveyed to my son 
above named; to whom it afforded an opportunity of examining 
the Inward structure of some of its parts, of which we shall 
give an account. 
The length of the example described was twenty-two inches 
and a half, the body, independent of the globe, slender but 
round and plump; round the distended part two feet eleven 
inches; from the front to the tail along the back nearly straight. 
The mouth small, teeth projecting not much unlike the beak 
of a parrot; when the mouth is closed the upper pair overhang 
the lower; below the mouth a gradual slope, which suddenly 
distends into the globe, that reaches to the vent, which is large. 
The skin is soft, like velvet, and elastic; capable of considerable 
motion over the muscles beneath it; the globe covered with 
distant star-shaped depressions, each of which bears a prominent 
