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His name occui's as tbe discoverer or tlie recorder of rare and 

 interesting marine animals in nearly every faunistic text-book and 

 monograph from 1852 onwards. For more than half-a-century 

 Dr. Norman has been indefatigable in collecting and in elucidating 

 the British species of Crustacea and other Invertebrata ; and the 

 many parts of the ' Museum Normanianum ' form a record of a 

 vast collection which has e\er been at the service of scientific 

 workers both at home and abroad. Bate and Westwood, in their 

 work on ' British Sessile-eyed Crustacea,' make acknowledgments 

 to the Eev. A. M. Norman, 'who has forwarded to us his entire 

 collection of Edriophthalmatous Crustacea for examination ' — and 

 that is only one of many similar instances. Haeckel, Bowerbank, 

 H. B. Brady, G. S. Brady, Hiucks, M'Intosh, Bonnier, Canu, 

 Alder and Hancock, Haddon, Jeffrey Bell, Delia Valle, P. Mayer, 

 and Giesbrecht are some of the eminent marine zoologists who 

 acknowledge in their publications the help freely given by our 

 Medallist. 



" jS'orman's own scientific writings are numerous, extending 

 from 1851 to 1906 ; and his wide scope is indicated by the Shet- 

 land Dredging Eeport to the British Association in 1868, ' On the 

 Crustacea, Tuuicata,Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actiuozoa, Hydrozoa, 

 and Porifera.' Bowerbank, at that date, naming a new genus of 

 sponges Kormania, says : ' I have named this genus after my friend 

 the Eev. Alfred Merle Norman, the ardent and accomplished 

 naturalist, to whom I am indebted for numerous new and valuable 

 species of British Sponges.' This compliment Norman amply 

 repaid in 1882 by completing Dr. Bowerbank's unfinished work on 

 the British Sponges for the Eay Society. 



" A genus Kormania was named by Gr. S. Brady among the 

 Ostracoda in 1866 ; and it may be noted that- imder the dates 1889 

 and 1896 Brady and Norman are found collaborating in an im- 

 portant monograph on the Ostracoda, published by the Royal 

 Dublin Society. That in 1871 Axel Boeck named a genus of 

 Amphipods Kormania (now Normanion, Bonnier) is only one more 

 evidence of our Medallist's varied activity. I cannot refer to all 

 his papers : they include useful faunistic lists from different 

 parts of the country, records of di-edging expeditions in the North 

 Sea and elsewhere. In the Zoological Society's ' Transactions ' for 

 1886 will be found his joint paper with Mr. Stebbmg on the 

 Crustacea Isopodaof the 'Lightning,' 'Porcupine,' and 'Valorous' 

 expeditions. 



" His definition of the ' British Area in Marine Zoolog)^' issued 

 in 189U, has been generally accepted. At the same date he pub- 

 lished a valuable ' Eevision of British Mollusca,' worthy of a some- 

 time President of the Conchological Society. His ' Month on the 

 Trondhjem Fiord ' in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' 

 for 1893 to 1895, followed more recently by his ' Notes on the 

 Natural History of East Einmark ' in the same Journal for 

 1902-05, could only have been written by a Eield-Naturalist of 



