508 Miscellayieous. 



to Prof. Huxley ; the Gasteropoda and Lamellibranclis to the llev. 

 11, B. Watson ; the Brachiopoda to Mr. Davidson ; the Ostracoda 

 Copepoda to Mr, G. S, Brady ; the lihizopodato Mr, H. B. Brady ; the 

 Isopoda to Mr. H. Woodward ; the Cirripedia to Mr. C. Darwin (?); 

 the Annelida to Dr. M'lntosh ; the Gcphyrea to Prof. Eay Lankes- 

 ter ; the Bryozoa to Mr. Busk ; the Hydromedusoe to Dr. Allman ; 

 the Corals to Mr. Mosclcy ; the Crinoidea to tSir Wyville Thomson ; 

 the Echinoidea (probably, but I do not write certainly, the Aste- 

 roidea) to Mr, A. Agassiz ; the Ophiuroidea to Mr, Lj-man ; the 

 Spongida to Prof. O, .'^'chmidt ; the Kadiolaria to Prof, E. Haeckel ; 

 the higher Crustacea to Prof. Claus ; and the Alcyonaria to Prof, 

 Kolliker, to whom they have long since been sent, Mr, Murray is 

 a permanent assistant ; Mr, "NVild's excellent artistic services are 

 retained; and Mr. Pearcey is also employed. Sir Wyville Thorn- on, 

 I again assert, has sent or proposes to send, the most important of 

 the collections abroad for description. The general and geological 

 value of the groups sent to the two American and four German 

 naturalists is intinitely greater than that of all the others. 



In the above list one misses some familiar names, such as Car- 

 penter, Gwyn Jeffreys, iS"orman, T. Wright, Carter, llupert Jones, 

 Spence Bate, Archer. " Of coui-se no one from the British Museum, 

 except Mr, Woodward and Dr. Giinther, is included ; nor is there 

 mention of any of the very rising young naturalists and palajon- 

 tologists who are doing such admirable work at Cambridge. One 

 would have thought that there was somebody at Glasgow or at St. 

 Andrew's who was worthy of consideration. 



The Director, as he yives up mimh paying work, will receive £500 

 for the year and <£! a day travelling expenses. Mr. Murray and 

 Mr. wild will receive =£400 a year each. The discretion of the 

 " Director is to be used in paying" those specialists who are work- 

 ing up the different departments. But, dou])tless, as those of us 

 who " worked up " the results of the deep-sea dredgings of the 

 ' Porcupine ' expedition did it gratuitously, no call for money will 

 be made by any one now at work except for simple expenses. 

 When the Government bring forward the motion of supply they wiU 

 be informed that their liberality has been far in excess of the re- 

 quirements of the case, 



1 forward you the vouchers for my statements. 



Yours, &c.. 

 May 25, 1877. P. Martin Duncan. 



We append a remarkable paragraph which appeared in ' Nature ' 

 of the 17th ult. It is as follows : — 



*• We regret to see what we must characterize as an unwarranted 

 attack made upon Sir Wyville Thomson in the current number of 

 the ' Annals and Magazine of jS'atural History,' as to the disposal 

 of the specimens obtained by the * Challenger ' expedition. Dr. 

 Martin Duncan appears to have taken for granted that an extract of 



