The following specimens suitable for class purposes and dissection are kept in stock at the Plymouth Laboratory, and may be obtained at short notice on application to the Director. Except where otherwise stated in the list, all specimens will be forwarded in alcohol; but those marked with an asterisk can be sent fresh if required, in which case the prices will be correspondingly reduced.

This method of taking the fish alive is, I believe, peculiar to this sea and its neighbouring waters. Indigenous or non-indigenous matters but little in that which follows; it is sufficient to state that pot-fishing forms about the only mode of capture practised in these regions for supplying the people with fresh fish.

In the Report of the Cornwall Polytechnic Society for 1851 Mr. W. P. Cocks described a species of sea-anemone under the name of Actinia tuberculata. He gave a small figure in illustration, but this was somewhat indefinite. His description is as follows:—“ Body globular, light brown, densely covered with large greyish-white tubercles, the apex of each tubercle depressed; disc white; mouth large, lips thick, corrugated, and everted; tentacula numerous, large, obtuse, some bifurcated, others trifurcated. Diameter three and a half inches when contracted.”