4 THE INVERTEBRATE FAUNA 
recent years Professors Goodsir, Edward Forbes, and Allman, 
held the most distinguished places. 
Professor Goodsir was an anatomist in the widest and most 
philosophical signification of the word, and on this his great 
reputation is mainly based; but it may sometimes be for- 
gotten that he was also an accomplished marine zoologist. 
Many of the species in our lists are given on his authority. 
In 1838, Professor Goodsir communicated to the Cupar 
Literary and Antiquarian Society a list of the marine animals 
collected at Anstruther by his brother, Harry Goodsir. We 
have not been able to ascertain whether this was ever 
published. 
Professor Edward Forbes, although a pioneer in the in- 
vestigation of marine faunas, does not seem to have personally 
done much dredging in the Forth. The period during which 
he occupied and adorned the Chair of Natural History in the 
University was too brief and too fully occupied with other 
work to admit of this. 
The work of Professor Allman on the Hydroids and 
Polyzoa is well known, and his writings are indispensable to 
the student of marine zoology. They will be very frequently 
quoted in these lists. 
The researches of Dr Thomas Strethill Wright are among 
the most valuable of those which we have to notice. Dr 
Wright gave much attention to the Protozoa and Coelenterata, 
and contributed to the Proceedings of the Royal Physical 
Society a series of papers, entitled, “Observations on British 
Zoophytes,” in which the histology, physiology, and develop- 
ment of many of the Hydroids are treated in the most 
admirable manner. 
About twenty years ago a committee of marine zoology was 
formed in the Royal Physical Society, for the purpose of 
dredging the Forth and neighbouring waters. The preparation 
of a list does not seem to have been an object with this com- 
mittee, but some of their rarer finds are recorded in the 
Proceedings of the Society. 
The most complete list hitherto published is that by Dr 
M‘Bain, R.N., in the Rev. Walter Wood’s book, “The East 
Neuk of Fife.” The specimens mentioned in that work were 
