NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 383 



Now my paper on the above subject, which contained among 

 other matter an account of the nephridia or segmental organs of 

 Polyno'e, was published, not after Mr. Bourne's, as might be inferred 

 from the sentence quoted above, but several months before the 

 latter was even read. 



My paper was read in June, 18S2, and published in August 

 of the same yeai\ Mr. Bourne's was read on January 18th, 1883, 

 and published in September of that year. I therefore had 

 priority in publication by a year. Moreover, I published a paper 

 on the Segmental Organs of Polyno'e, in the Zoologischer Anzeiger, 

 of September, 1882, five months before Mr. Bourne's communica- 

 tion to the Linnean Society was read. Whatever credit, therefore, 

 is due to priority of discovery, rests unmistakeably with me, and 

 not with Mr. Bourne, and his note on the subject is calculated to 

 convey an erroneous impression.* 



My Macleay read the following extracts from a letter of the 

 Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, Vice-President of the Society, which 

 he had just received from Perak, Straits Settlement : — 



" I am sending you now a brief account of my movements 

 which if you think of sufficient interest I would thank you to 

 communicate to the Linnean Society. I was laid up during the 

 whole of January with jungle fever, but early in February I 

 started on a boat expedition into the interior. I left Kuala 

 Kausa with a party of nine Malays and one European, descending 

 the stream to near the mouth, a distance of 120 miles. I then 

 returned in a smaller boat to the junction of the Kiuta and 

 ascended that stream nearly as far as navigable, about 50 miles, 

 then by means of elephants we made several day's journey across 

 the country to visit the tin mines in the valleys of Possin, 

 Pappau, Lahat and Goping. All these mines are in the granite 

 which forms the main central range of the Malayan Peninsula. 



* I have already pointed out in the Proceedings of this Society. (Vol. 

 VII., p. 611), that the position of the external apertures of the segmental 

 organs of Hermadion was known to Claparede as early as 1870. 



