About midnight on 26th June, 1908, at the close of a voyage to the White Sea fishing grounds, undertaken by Mr. A. E. Hefford and myself in the Hull steam trawler Princess Louise, H 837, Captain Turner of that vessel did me the great favour of taking a short haul to procure plaice for transplantation to the North Sea.

The specimen which forms the subject of this note was sent to Dr. Allen by Miss Olivia L. Fox, of Falmouth, at the beginning of December, 1906, preserved in formalin. Dr. Allen sent it to me in London, and requested me to study and describe it. The specimen is 4·4 cm. in length, and presents a condition which has never previously been described in any species of flat-fish. I have examined it with great interest, and would express here my thanks to Dr. Allen for sending it to me.

Among a sample of seven small Conger, from 58 to 77 cm. in length, obtained from the Plymouth Fish Quay on 31st March, one was found with unsymmetrical reproductive organs. The other six were immature females with the normal pair of ovaries. The abnormal specimen has a right gonad quite similar to the ovaries of females at the same stage of maturity. It is bandlike in form, extending along the whole length of the abdominal cavity. The inner or left side is covered with smooth peritoneal epithelium (mesoarium). The greater part of the surface of the right (outer) side is raised into transverse lamellæ containing the as yet little-developed ova embedded in fat-tissue. For about one to two millimetres from its free edge, the organ consists of a strip of fat-tissue quite free from germinal cells, and there is a similarly constituted longitudinal fold—here and there divided into a subsidiary one—extending parallel to and about 2 mm. from the free edge and bordering the lamellated germinal area. The ovary is 17.5 cm. long, its greatest width 12 mm., and the widest part of the lamellated area is about 7 mm.

The following notes are confined to the species of Polychæta, which have been found by myself during the last four years, between tide-marks, on the coast comprised within the Borough of Torquay. Torquay is so well known as a hunting ground for the marine zoologist that it is unnecessary to describe the features of the shores. No special study of the Polychseta of Torquay appears to have been previously made, although the locality, Torbay, occurs somewhat frequently in the British Museum Catalogue of Worms.

This small species was described by Verrill in 1898, and first observed by Miss Verrill in 1892 near New Haven, U.S.A.

In 1902 Parker noted a number of new localities, and remarked upon its rapidly extending range on the American coast.

P. H. Gosse described this beautiful little species in his British Sea Anemones and Corals, in 1860, from two specimens obtained from a pool at Petit Tor, near Torquay.

I recently collected two specimens at Zennor, some five miles along the coast south of St. Ives, Cornwall.

An examination of these proved that Gosse's examples were young and immature, as shown by the difference of size and number of tentacles.

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Voyage XCIII. Station 37. Northumberland ground. 40 fathoms. 1 specimen.

Voyage XCIIL. Station 56. Lat. 55°31' N. Long. 0° 53' W. 55 fathoms. 2 specimens.

The specimen from 93–37 was young and damaged. Expanse of disk and tentacles in a contracted condition, 30 mm.

During July and August, 1907 (Voyages XCII, XOIII, XCIV, XCV, and XCVI), the s.s. Huxley worked a series of stations reaching from near Cromer to St. Abb's Head more or less parallel with the coast line, and also a series further to the north, and extending around the eastern borders of the Dogger Bank.

The following list has been classified, so far as practicable, according to subjects, in order that it may be useful for purposes of reference. The list does not include publications recording the results of observations made on material supplied by the Association to workers in different parts of the country, of which a considerable amount is sent out each. year.