308 NEW SPECIES DISCOVERED. CHAP. xv. 



had arisen. It was the Mysis spinifera, which 

 Edward had first found in .he Moray Firth in the 

 year 1$58. He had sent it to one of his correspond- 

 ents, in order that he might give it its name. But it 

 remained unnoticed and unknown for a period of 

 about four years, when it was re-discovered in Sweden 

 by M. Goes, who at once published the fact. " Thus," 

 says Edward, " the first finder, as well as the country 

 in which this Crustacean was first found, have both 

 been ignored in the records of science." 



Edward discovered many new species, some of 

 which had never been met with before, and others 

 which had not been met with in Britain. Some 

 were recognised and named, but others were not. 

 " The number of specimens I collected," says Edward, 

 " was immense. It must have been so from the 

 various methods I adopted to procure them, and 

 from the fact that I never lost a single opportunity 

 of obtaining even but one object when it could 

 be got. Labour, time, cold, wet, privation, were 

 nothing, so that I could but secure the specimen that 

 I sought for. . . . There are still several new species 

 which I discovered and sent to gentlemen years 

 ago. All I knew about them, from letters I received 

 in return, is that they were new ; but whether they 

 have ever received names, or whether the discoveries 

 have been made public, I do not know." 



Mr. Spence Bate did every justice to Edward in 

 the discoveries which he made of new species, in con- 



