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Show Out of Indian Seas. The Indian marine survey steamer Investigator, In-vestigator, which returned to Bombay from a surveying cruise, has sent a rich zoological collection both from the shallows shal-lows and the depths of the Indian seas to the Calcutta museum, where specimens speci-mens are now being grouped and arranged arrang-ed for distribution to specialists in En-rope En-rope to be determined and described. The fish and crustaceans are being reserved re-served to be classified here. Some very productive hauls of the trawl were made in the depths of the Arabian sea, the takes including many specimens of deep sea fishes and crustaceans. Especially worthy of mention among the latter are two new forms of lobster, a great variety of prawns and some gigantic creatures of the woodlouse tribe, closely allied, if not identical, with the remarkable creature creat-ure dredged by the United States steamer Blake in the Gulf of Florida several years ago. Calcutta Cor. London Times. |