422 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



1873. Parfitt, Edward. 



The Fcauna of Devon. Part. IX. Sessile-eyed Crustacea (Read at Sidmouth, 

 July, 1873.) Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the 

 advancement of Science, Literature and Art. Vol. VI. Part I. 1873. pp. 

 236-251. 



The opening remarks include observations on the heart and circulation in Nij^hargus aqtiiler, 

 Schiodte, in which, he says, "the pulsations of the heart are at the rate of 100 in fifty- 

 seconds." In the catalogue there are some remarks on the habits of Corophium longicorne, 

 Latr. Eighty-two species of Amphipoda are named ; some of the names, however, can 

 only rank as synonyms. 



1873. Thomson, Charles Wyville, born March 5, 1830, died March 10, 1882 (John 

 Murray). 



The Depths of the Sea. An account of the general results of the Dredging 

 cruises of H.M.SS. "Porcupine" and "Lightning" during the summers of 1868, 

 1869, and 1870, under the scientific direction of Dr. Carpenter, F.R.S., J. Gwyn 

 Jeffreys, F.R.S , and Dr. Wyville Thomson, F.R.S. 1873. 



On page 125, Eudrus cuspidatus, Kr0yer, is figured, and the remark made that it "had previously 

 been known only in the Greenland seas," whereas this specimen was dredged on tlie third 

 cruise of the "Porcupine" in 1869, among the fauna of the "Cold Area" in the channel 

 between Eeeroe and Shetland. Fig. 19 is said to be "a large and hitherto unknown 

 species of the genus CapreUa." It is named CapreUa spinosissima, Norman. But INIayer, 

 CapreUiden, p. 35, quotes a letter from Norman saying that this was a mistake on Thomson's 

 part. " It should have been CapreUa spinosissima, Stimpson. It is = ^gina ecMriafa of 

 Boeck." Judging from a Spitzbergen specimen, which Norman sent as a female of the same 

 species, Mayer inclined to regard the species as new, under the name jSgina spinnsissima, 

 Norman. This name, however, is preoccupied. The original specimen, which I have had 

 an opportunity of seeing, confirms the view taken by G. 0. Sars, 1885, that it is the same 

 species as his Capn'eUa horrida, and since the name Caprella spinosissima is preoccupied, 

 CapreUa horrida wiU be the name of the species. The remarkable resemblances between 

 this species and ^gina spinifera, Bell, will easily account for any confusion that has arisen 

 between them, in spite of their belonging to difierent genera. 



1873. WiEDEESHEIM, R. 



Beitriige zur Kenntniss der mirttembergischen Hohlenfauna. Verhandlungen 

 der physikalisch-medicinischen Gesellschaft in Wiirzburg. Neue Folge IV. 

 Bd. pp. 207-222. [pp. 4, 5 of separate copy]. 



He records, according to Fries, the finding of an eyeless Gammanis on a stone of the brook at 

 the entrance of the Falkenstein cavern, strikingly distinguished by its milk-white colouring 

 from its brownish companions with well-developed eyes. 



