The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . time, in the stomach of a shark, is without any traceof the softer and more perishable parts, is a matter of course;but in other respects it is well preserved. That it representsa new species is also very probable, as the locality of its oc-currence is so exceedingly distant from that of any previouslyknown Antipathid. But upon this circumstance we mustnot for the present lay very great stress, as it is certain that * First elucidated (if we leave out of consideration what Marsigli(1725), Ellis (1786), and Gray (1832) h
The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . time, in the stomach of a shark, is without any traceof the softer and more perishable parts, is a matter of course;but in other respects it is well preserved. That it representsa new species is also very probable, as the locality of its oc-currence is so exceedingly distant from that of any previouslyknown Antipathid. But upon this circumstance we mustnot for the present lay very great stress, as it is certain that * First elucidated (if we leave out of consideration what Marsigli(1725), Ellis (1786), and Gray (1832) had previously published withregard to it) by Dana (Explor. Exped. Zoophytes, x. tab. 56. figs. 1 & 2),and afterwards more completely by Lacaze-Duthiers (Ann, Sci. s^r., Zool. & , tomes ii. & iv. 1864-65). t Loc. cit. tome ii. p. 173, and several other places. 7* 80 Dr. C. Liitken on a new Species of Black Coral deep-sea species may have a distribution which may extendeven from the tropical to the glacial zones. If it is actually Fie:. 1. Fiff. A portion of the main stem, enlarged. The tip of a branch, enlarged. Fiff. 3.
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