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] During about eighteen months he studied with the utmost care the conditions of the Ægean and its shores, and conducted upwards of one hundred dredging operations at depths varying from 1 to 130 fathoms. In 1843 he communicated to the Cork meeting of the British Association an elaborate report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Ægean Sea, and on their distribution considered as bearing on Geology. Three years later, in 1846, he published in the first volume of the 'Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain,' a most valuable memoir upon the Connection between the existing Fauna and Flora of the British Isles, and the geological Changes which have affected their Area, especially during the Epoch of the Northern Drift. In the year 1859 appeared the Natural History of the European Seas by the late Professor Edward Forbes, edited and continued by Robert Godwin Austen. In the first hundred pages of this little book, Forbes gives a general outline of some of the more important of his views with regard