CRUSTACEANS 



that no representatives of that sex have been observed in northern or western Europe north of 

 Spain.' l 



While much remains to be done for the Crustacea of Nottinghamshire, enough has been 

 done already by a few workers to show that the county is, as might have been expected, ready 

 to yield a rich harvest to those who have time to study its carcinology. The comparative 

 neglect of this particular branch of natural history investigation is scarcely surprising, since in 

 quite recent years a history of the county could claim to discuss its flora and fauna, while 

 completely ignoring the whole zoology of invertebrate animals. The ' water-flea ' and the 

 ' wood-louse ' need not complain of indifference and neglect, when spiders and flies, ants and 

 grasshoppers, are treated as the mere material for fables, and the great armies of beetles and 

 bees and butterflies are left out of account, as though they had no essential part in the life and 

 economy of the globe, and contributed nothing to the beauty and the marvel of man's 

 surroundings. 



1 Op. cit. p. 721. 



