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grapnel anything that it may have hooked. However, I secured a 
piece on April 21st in Lat. 29° N., Long. 40° W., and a second 
sample some 22 hours later, say about 300 miles from the first. The 
weed when in the hand is pretty, and quite unlike any Alga found 
in British seas. Kingsley’s figure gives a good idea of it. 1 This is 
what he says of the results of his examination: “ A tiny curled 
Spirorbis, a Lepraria with its thousand-fold cells, and a tiny polype 
belonging to the Campanularias, with a creeping stem, which sends 
up here and there a yellow-stalked bell, were all the parasites we 
saw.” So wrote Charles Kingsley of the results of his fishing on 
December 17th, 1869. Careful examination with a pocket lens of 
the fronds at my disposal revealed three organisms, and three only; 
these three organisms were present in both my samples, and more¬ 
over would appear to be the same that Kingsley found. It surely 
indicates a very remarkable similarity of conditions extending far in 
both time and space. 
1 “ At Last! ” 1882, pp. 8-11, with figure 
