THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 



No. 116. AUGUST 1877. 



XL — On the Structure o/Peripatus novse-zealandije. 

 By Capt. F. W. Hutton. 



To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, — 



I do not wish to enter into a discussion witli Mr. Moseley 

 about Peripatus ; for the differences between us can only be 

 settled by further observation, andj as I am just commencing 

 the removal of the museum collection into a new building, it 

 will be some time before I can devote further attention to the 

 subject ; but as he has accused me, both in ' Nature ' (Nov. 

 1876) and the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History ' 

 (Jan. 1877), of publishing imperfect observations, and of 

 drawing and describing structures which have no real exis- 

 tence, I must ask you to allow me to say a few words in self- 

 defence. 



My paper was published before I knew that Mr. Moseley 

 had examined any specimens of P. novce-zealandioi and found 

 some of them to be males. I do not doubt for a moment that 

 Mr. Moseley has seen males ; and my failure in this respect 

 may perhaps be due to my having selected large specimens 

 for dissection. But that P. novce-zealandioi is also herma- 

 phrodite I feel quite sure, notwithstanding Mr. Moscley's 

 ex cathedra statement to the contrary. All the figures in my 

 plate were drawn with a camera, except figs. 1 and 8, which 

 are diagrammatic ; and in fig. 8 the testes and vasa dcierentia 

 were copied from camera drawings, of which I enclose the 



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