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PROCEEDINGS OF THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 
Pteropod ( Hyalea longirostra Les.) occurred in one of these 
dredgings. This is a species which lives on the surface of the 
sea and of which I had once found an example cast ashore at 
highwater mark. 
My notices and lists are extremely incomplete and rudi- 
mentary ; but they may yet have their value and at all events on 
some points they are a beginning. On the subject of the molluska 
lave only inserted a few remarks in this paper as I propose at a 
future meeting to give a separate paper on this branch alone, as 
1 “ 0116 that 1 have more fu % investigated than some of the 
others. 
Small Fishes are not uncommonly brought up in the dredge. 
But it would scarcely be useful to treat of these apart from the 
general ichthyological fauna of the Gulf and I am not at present 
ZonfZ T t0 d ° t,m - 1 CXhibit ^wever, a few specimens 
, ° W y ° U WlU ob serve the curious pipefish (Syngnathus ) 
and the seahorse {Hippocampus). J 
it in til d" 80 look .t 
of whtl * T; I:™ Witl ' ““ most form, of life some 
1 nee e ”": ,VeS *° “ “ by PHosphores- 
::: Jr iit. is r: ed witk the 
w,J“!7 “ d " th0 °« 1,b °‘ b floating in, h, 
espie * in T, Pl "** fe «» bottom, 
X I"!” P Wh ”« «»«». In the snrfTOe 
*1.. f.™ 
Asterionella. “ “*«»»>» * 
k •**> “>« ™ * » 
•ion. are .imil.r those oftheitadM 7" ** 
diolaria and do not represent 
