undatutn) i'JindwHinir^h, . . . Ironi lat. 4(3° 40' N., long. 50° W." 
This would be on the Grand Banks, near the Eastern Shoals, in 
about 40 fathoms. These large masses of capsules were un- 
doubtedly produced by several individuals. Specimens before 
me measuring from 5 to 7 inches in length, 4 to 4.5 inches wide, 
and 3 to 3.5 inches high, and containing prol>a})ly from 2,000 to 
2,500 capsules, seem out of all proportion for a single shell. 
Mr. Olof O. Nylander says he has seen two and three specimens 
apparently forming a single bunch. Clusters containg 544 
capsules are recorded. The irregular cluster shown on the 
plate facing page 65 of The Shell Book (by Juha E. Rogers, 
1908), is proV)a])ly what would be called "branching." The 
usual size of the clusters is from 2.5 to 3 inches in diameter, 
as shown on Plate 1, fig. 1, containing between 300 and 400 
capsules. The bunches of capsules form a fairly good substi- 
tute for a sponge. "These are called 'sea wash-balls,' being 
used instead of soap by sailors to wash their hands." 
Under Chrysodomus, Dr. Dall, in the paper above referred to, 
says: "Ovicapsules massed, sessile either in a heap as in Buc- 
cinum, or in a cylindrical erect group." Forbes and Hanley, 
under Fusus antiguus Linn., the type of the genus Chrysodomus, 
say: "The capsules arc only half an inch in diameter, are convex 
outwardly, and concave in the inner side, coarse and corrugated, 
and piled one upon another in a conical heap, three inches or so 
high." 
Professor A. E. Verrill^ under Buccinum cyaneum Brug. saj^s: 
"Numerous examples of clusters of cylindrical, often very 
much elongated, clusters of egg-capsules have been brought 
from the Grand Bank by the Gloucester fishermen. These, I 
suppose, belong to this species, but I have no positive evidence. 
The clusters are usually about an inch in diameter and 3 to 5 
inches long. By the fishermen, these are called 'sea-corn' and 
'green-corn.' " Friele^ under Buccinum terraenovae Beck, says: 
"The egg-capsules (fig. 16a, b) have been described by Morch 
in Catal. des Moll, du Spitzb., p. 16, without, however, his 
referring them to any particular species. Ootheca is long and 
cylindrical in form, occurring now as a naked stem now with 
a projecting branch. Length about 100 mm.; breadth from 
16 to 20 mm." These resemble the egg-capsules in question, 
iRistory of British Mollusea. 1853, vol. 3, p. 426. 
2Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., 1882, vol. 5, p. 49.5. 
^Norwegian North Atlantic Exped., 1876-78, vol. 3, Moll. 1, 1882, p. 33. 
