L.M.B.C. MEMOIRS. 



No. XVIII. ELEDONE. 

 (The Octopod Cuttlefish.) 



BY 



ANNIE ISGROVE, M.Sc. 



PREFACE. 



The greater part of the work for this Memoir has 

 been done in the Zoological Research Laboratory of the 

 Manchester University. 1 take this opportunity of 

 thanking Professor Hickson and Mr. Hewitt, of that 

 University, for their helpful suggestions. Dr. Hoyle, of 

 the Manchester Museum, also kindly lent me much of the 

 literature of the subject, and assisted me in various ways. 

 My thanks are due to the Council of the Marine Biological 

 Association of Great Britain for the use of a table at the 

 Plymouth Laboratory, during the Easter vacation, 1908, 

 and also to Mr. Chadwick of the Port Erin Biological 

 Station, for several useful notes with which he supplied 

 me as to the occurrence of Eledone cirrosa in that district, 

 its habits, method of capture and other details. 



