appearing after his book on the subject, noting a number of new facts, 

 and bringing the bibliography up to date), and by Ray Lankester. 

 That by the latter, appearing in 1868 ("On Lithodomous Annehds "), 

 deals with the boring of stones by Annehd worms, and must be his 

 first paper, since he is described as " Junior Student of Christ Church, 

 Oxford " ; in a later paper (1869 — " On the Existence of distinct 

 Larval and Sexual Forms in the Gemmiparous OUgochaetous 

 Worms ") he is " B.A. Oxon." At this time the number of borrowed 

 and translated papers is' almost as great as that of the original 

 contributions ; these borrowed papers are always interesting, and 

 usually of considerable theoretical importance: e.g., 3. C. Schiodte, 

 " On the Development of the Position of the Eyes in Pleuronectidge " 

 (this appeared in the Annals at the same time as, or before, its 

 pubHcation in the Naturhistorisk Tidskrift); Anton Dohrn, "On 

 Eugereon hoeckingi and the Genealogy of the Arthropoda"; Sars, 

 '' Remarks on the Distribution of Animal Life in the Depths of the 

 Sea" ; von Sibbold, " On the Law of Development of the Sexes in 

 Insects " ; and papers by Fritz Muller, Strasburger, C. Semper 

 (two original papers of his also, besides those borrowed from else- 

 where), several by Haeckel, as weU as by the American authors 

 O. C. Marsh (Cretaceous Reptiles) and Verrill. 



In the late '70's the Preface to the Fifth Series notes that " Even 

 foreign naturaUsts seek admission for their writings " to the Annals. 

 Botany is still represented in its pages. Bowerbank, J. E. Gray, 

 and others are dead ; but Owen is still writing (on the Dodo, and 

 other papers), and so are Brady (on the Radiolaria), H. J. Carter 

 (a frequent contributor), Saville Kent, Gunther, Hincks, Spence 

 Bate, Pickard- Cambridge, A. M. Norman, and other old friends. 

 We make the acquaintance of T. R. R. Stebbing (Crustacea), 

 W. J. SoLLAS (Sponges), Wood-Mason, the Deputy-Superintendent 

 of the Indian Museum (Entomology), Hutton {Peripatus), H. N. 

 MosBLEY (on Bipalium kewense, a land-Planarian, and on Peri- 

 patus), BowDLBR Sharpe (Birds), DuCane Godman and Osbert 

 Salvin (Central and South American Insects), and Raphael 

 Meld OLA, best known as a chemist, but honoured also for his work 

 in Entomology (" Entomological Notes bearing on Evolution ") ; 

 while Mbrbschowsky has many contributions on the Hydrozoa, 

 one with the alluring title "On an Anomaly among the Hydro- 

 medusse and on their Mode of Nutrition by Means of the Ectoderm ", 

 and Fritz Muller is again represented by a (borrowed) paper on the 

 Nauplius stage of the Prawns. 



We come thus to a time when naturaUsts who are still Hving 

 begin to contribute, perhaps the first being D'Arcy Thompson, 

 who in 1878 writes on Hydrozoa from AustraHa and New Zealand ; 

 and beyond this we will not extend this already lengthy survey. 

 Soon afterwards Botany ceased to be included in the subjects of the 

 Annals, and the journal came to consist, as at present, of Zoology and 

 Palaeontology. As years went on, and Zoology widened its scope to 

 include genetics, cytology, experimental embryology, comparative 



