352 The Naturalist of Cumbrae. 



Robertson, after whom I have much pleasure in 

 naming it." 



During the course oflast year Dr. G. S. Brady and 

 Canon Norman jointly brought out the first section 

 of a monograph of the marine and freshwater ostra- 

 coda of the North Atlantic and North Western 

 Europe. 



In this work Robertson tool? a more than usual 

 interest, it having been originally planned, though on 

 a less extensive scale, between himself and Brady. 

 Thus, on September 21, 1885, Brady writes : 



"DEAR ROBERTSON, 



" I think it is well to send you the MS. 

 of what I have done at the ostracoda, that is, all up 

 to the end of the genus Candona, except Candona 

 nitens, of which I have no specimens, and Candona 

 tenella, about which I want your opinion before call- 

 ing it distinct. There may be other localities to 

 insert, or other remarks which may occur to you as 

 desirable. Please put; in dr put out anything you 

 think proper." 



In November, 1883, Brady suggested that Norman 

 should be invited to join in the work, to which 

 Eobertson gladly assented. But this, through one 

 cause and another, resulted in the work taking a 

 rather different shape from that originally intended, 

 and in its finally appearing not under the names of 

 Brady and Robertson, but those of Brady and Nor- 

 man. These authors, however, at various points of 

 the work, show their sense of the great assistance 



