REPORT ON THE AMPHIPODA. 1619 



and such was the extreme avidity with which they immediately seized upon any meat put 

 overboard to thaw or soak for the sake of freshness, that Captain Lyon to-day sent me a 

 goose to look at, belonging to the officers of the Hecla, that had been thus deposited 

 within their reach only eight and forty hours, and from which they had eaten every 

 ounce of meat, leaving only a skeleton most delicately cleaned. Our men had before 

 remarked that their meat suffered unusual loss of substance by soaking, but did not 

 know to what cause to attribute the deficiency. We took advantage, however, of the 

 hunger of these depredators to procure complete skeletons of small animals, for preserva- 

 tion as anatomical specimens, enclosing them in a net or bag with holes, to which the 

 shrimps could have access, but which prevented the loss of any of the limbs, should the 

 cartilage of the joints be eaten. For want of this latter precaution some specimens were 

 at first rendered imperfect." 

 This account of the voracity of the Arctic Amphipoda tallies with what is said by Holb0ll, 

 1842, Sutherland, 1852, and Goes, 1865. 



1824. Sabine, E. 



A supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage for the discovery of 



a north-west passage, in the years 1819-20. Containing the zoological and 



botanical notices. London, mdcccxxiv. Marine Invertebrate Animals, by Captain 



Edward Sabine, pp. ccxix-ccxxxix. 



The zoological part of this work had already appeared in 1821 without any variation from the 

 present edition except in the numbering of the pages ; thus, for example, in a list of 

 synonyms, " Gammarus loricatus, Sabine, Appendix to Capt. Parry's Voyage of Discovery, 

 p. 58, 1821," and "Gammarus loricatus, Sabine, Supplement to the Appendix of Captain 

 Parry's Voyage, p. ccxxxi. 1824," are practically one and the same reference. See Note on 

 Sabine, 1821. 



1828. ROSS, J. C. 



In Narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole, in boats fitted for the 

 purpose, and attached to his Majesty's ship Hecla, in the year mdcccxxvil, under 

 the command of Captain William Edward Parry, R.N. , F.R.S. London, mdcccxxviii. 

 Appendix. Zoology. By Lieutenant (now Commander) James Clark Ross, R.N., 

 F.L.S. 



Under the heading "Marine invertebrate animals," the following notices of Amphipoda are 

 given on pages 203-205. 



" 9. Caprella scolopendroides. 



"Caprella Scolopendroides. Lam. v. p. 174. App. to Parry's Tfiird Voyage, p. 118. 



"Gammarus Quadrilobatus. Zool. Dan. iii. p. 58, Plate 114, fig. 11, 12, Female. 



"Squilla Quadrilobata. Zool. Dan. ii. p. 21, Plate 56, fig. 4, 5, 6, Male. 



"Squilla Lobata. Fabr. Faun. Groenl. p. 248. 



"The specimens of this species, which were taken in a net to the northward of Low Island, are 

 of a size intermediate between those figured by Miiller and those obtained, during Captain 

 Parry's Third Voyage, at Port Bovven. The spines along the back were hardly visible 

 without the aid of a microscope ; and the second pair of legs are inserted in the anterior 

 part of the second segment of the body, and not in the centre of it, as in the plates 

 referred to. 



