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The Sponge, which I have the pleasure of bringing before you, was found in a deep cleft on the under side of a boulder of the New Red Sandstone, off Paignton, in Torbay, at about the ordinary low tide mark. The locality is well known to our naturalists, both past and present. The Rev. Charles Kingsley, in his " Glaucus," has eloquently descanted on the abundant riches of the place, which afforded him much enjoyment in the study of natural history. Following the retiring tide, especially if it be at the equinox, you have ample leisure for an examination of those fringes of the rocks where a

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