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 the United States 

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C, 



TYPE-SPECIMENS OF POLYCHAETES DESCRIBED BY 

 EDITH AND CYRIL BERKELEY (1923-1964) 



By Marian H. Pettibone 



Associate Curator, Division of Worms 



The late Edith Berkeley, working as a volunteer investigator at 

 the Pacific Biological Station at Nanaimo, British Columbia, pub- 

 lished some 11 papers between 1923 and 1961, chiefly on the poly- 

 chaetes from the Nanaimo district. In these publications 1 new 

 genus, 15 new species, and 8 new varieties (some subsequently raised 

 to species) were described, and 1 new name was proposed. Edith 

 Berkeley was later joined by her husband Cyril in her polychaete 

 studies, and they jointly pubUshed 34 papers between 1932 and 1964. 

 In addition to material from British Columbia, their collection in- 

 cluded specimens from Alaska, the Bering Sea, the western Canadian 

 Arctic, southern CaHfornia, the west coasts of Mexico and Panama, 

 Peru, Hudson Bay, and the east coast of Canada. These studies 

 resulted in the erection of 4 new genera, 43 new species, 1 new sub- 

 species, 7 new varieties, and 1 new name. Cyril Berkeley alone 

 published two short papers dealing with polychaetes (1942, 1956). 

 "Canadian Pacific Fauna" includes two papers by the Berkeleys: 

 "Polychaeta Errantia" (1948) and "Polychaeta Sedentaria" (1952a). 

 Their pubhcations serve as the primary source for information on 

 the polychaetes of western Canada and nearby areas. 



In 1964, Cyril Berkeley kmdly donated the Berkeley polychaete 

 collection to the Smithsonian Institution. I went to Nanaimo to 



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