THE 



VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGEE. 



ZOOLOGY. 



REPORT on the Amphipoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 

 1873-76. By the Rev. Thomas R. R. Stebbing, M.A. 



PREFACE. 



It will easily be understood that the various portions of this Report have not been pre- 

 pared without a considerable amount of laborious perseverance. Even points of slight 

 importance, such as the derivations of generic names, have involved no little expenditure 

 of time and toil, and (as with those names for which no derivation has been found) some- 

 times most trouble has been taken where the result is least satisfactory. Considering 

 that the earlier pages were printed off before the work represented by the later pages 

 had shed its light upon them, the Report is unlikely to be wholly free from deficiencies, 

 inconsistencies, and other faults and mischances. In the completed volume it may well 

 happen that many of these will be far easier to detect than they were to avoid. But, 

 whatever the defects that may actually exist, either in the descriptive part of the Report 

 or in that which deals with the literature of the subject, I venture to suppose that they 

 might have been fewer had all the writings taken into account been always at hand to 

 be referred to, compared, and pondered over whenever occasion required, while I am 

 sure that they must have been far more numerous, had I not fortunately met with the 

 different forms of assistance which I now desire most gratefully to acknowledge. 



The ready and courteous liberality with which the Royal, the Linnean, and the 

 Zoological Societies of London, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Advocates' 

 Library, place their rich stores of literature at the service of the student, has laid me, 



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