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1845, Mr. R. M'Andrew, the well-known concliologist, 

 dredged in Loch Fyne, and subsequently, along with 

 Prof. Edward Forbes, obtained a number of interest- 

 ing species, several of which are described by Prof. 

 Bell in his History of the British Stalk-eyed Cius- 

 tacea. The Rev. Dr. Landsborough, author of 

 Excursions to Arran, and other popular scientific 

 works, was among the foremost of earlier workers 

 in the Firth of Clyde ; along with Major Martin of 

 Ardrossan, and other naturalists, he carried on 

 dredgings, chiefly in Lamlash Bay and off the Cum- 

 braes. During the year 1856 the Rev. Dr. Miles, of 

 Glasgow, and Dr. Greville — better known for his 

 researches in cryptogamic botany — aided by a grant 

 of money from the British Association, carried on a 

 series of dredgings, principally in Lamlash Bay. The 

 Crustacea collected by them, amounting only to 

 sixteen species, are recorded in the British Association 

 Report for that year ; and this list was afterwards 

 rei3rinted, along with a few of Landsborough's and 

 Martin's finds, in the Appendix to Dr. Bryce's Geology 

 of Arran and the other Clyde Islands. The Rev. A. M. 

 Norman, during a short residence at Cumbrae in 

 1853, collected many interesting invertebrates ; and a 

 few of the rarer crustaceans are recorded in some of 

 his own j)apers, and in Adam White's Popular History 

 of the British Crustacea, published in 1857. More 

 recently, in the first of two j)apers on the invertebrate 

 fauna of Lamlash Bay, in the Proceedings of the 

 Roijal Physical Society of Edinburgh, 1879-80, Prof, 

 Herdman of Liverpool enumerates twenty -four 

 species of Decajioda taken by himself in that rich 

 dredging locality. To Mr. Robertson, however, is due 

 the credit of having investigated the Clyde fauna 

 more thoroughly than any other naturalist ; and his 

 long -continued dredgings, extending over the last 

 thirty years, have added not a few species, some of 

 which are still recorded solely on his authority. 



With the exception of a small amount of shore 

 collecting and dredging done previously, our work 



