No. 4.] ROBERT MC ANDREW. 227 



From the facts known at present, it appears probable that all 

 these specimens, and several others that have been reported at 

 various times from the same region, are referable to two species ; 

 one (probably ArchiteuthU monachus) represented only by the 

 first of tliose enumerated above, and having a more elongated 

 form of body and stouter jaws; the second (probably JL. r7?;x) 

 represented by Nos. 2 to 5, above described, having a short, 

 thick, massive body, and broad, but comparatively thin jaws, 

 which are also diiferent in form. Some of the diiferences in size 

 and proportions, and in the suckers, observed among the four 

 specimens referred to the Litter species, m;iy be due to sex, for 

 the sexes differ considerably in these characters in all known, 

 cuttle- fishes.^ J. ??ier iff (?i Journal of Sclaicc 



THE LATP] ROBEIIT MoANBREW, Esq., 

 F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



In these days, when dredging operations are common, and their 

 results carefully tabulated and easily accessible, it is instructive to 

 remember- that when some of us were boys even the most fre- 

 quented seas had not been explored except by fishermen, and the 

 geographical distribution of species had not been studied. Fore- 

 most in the rank^ of new discoverers were the late Prof. Edward 

 Forbes and his friend Mr. M'Andrew. The latter gentleman 

 was of Scotch paront ige, but bom in England in 1802. He 

 spent the first 27 years of his active life in Liverpool, and the 

 remainder at Isleworth House, Middlesex, where he died after 

 a brief illness last May. He was one of the largest wiiolesale 

 fruit merchants, and it was '-accident" t'i:;t led him to devote 

 his spare time to scientific pursuits. His wife having amused 

 herself at the seaside by picking up ail the cowries (Tricid 

 Europcea) she could find, he suggested to her that it would be far 

 better to see how many diff^-rcnt kinds she could pick up. The 

 variety surprised him. He began to collect shells, about the 

 time that Deshayes was editing La:narck's Animaux sans Ver- 

 tebres. Then he began to dredge, as the oystermen did, in an 

 open boat. But when the results of his researches began to attract 

 the attention of scientific men, he fitted out a yacht with what were 

 then unheard of conveniences. Fixed to the outside were frames 

 for the fine sieve, and the coarse within. His trained sailors 

 manaaed the dredue. threw the haul into tiic sieves, drenched 



