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BEFORE leaving this enchanting spot (Lervik on the island of Stordoe near Bergen) where, in company with Mr. A. G. Bourne, I have spent the month of August, I send a few hurried lines to give an outline of the results which a month's dredging and microscopising have yielded. Lervik was introduced to me by the Rev. Alfred Norman, who two years since found here, at a depth of 100 fathoms in the Hardanger Fjord (about five miles from Lervik haven), that very remarkable Polyzoan mollusc, Rhabdopleura. Mr. Norman originally discovered this organism off the Shetlands, and it has since been described from specimens observed in the Lofoten Islands by Prof. G. O. Sars, who was able to give a more complete account of it than had been possible for Prof. Allman, who described and named Mr. Norman's Shetland specimens preserved in alcohol.
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LANKESTER, E. Dredgin in the Norwegian Fjords . Nature 26, 478–479 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026478a0
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