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recent years Professors Goodsir, Edward Forbes, and Allman, 

 held the most distinguished places. 



Professor Goodsir was an anatomist in the widest and most 

 philosophical signification of the word, and on this his great 

 reputation is mainly based; but it may sometimes be for- 

 gotten that he was also an accomplished marine zoologist. 

 Many of the species in our lists are given on his authority. 

 In 1838, Professor Goodsir communicated to the Cupar 

 Literary and Antiquarian Society a list of the marine animals 

 collected at Anstruther by his brother, Harry Goodsir. We 

 have not been able to ascertain whether this was ever 

 published. 



Professor Edward Forbes, although a pioneer in the in- 

 vestigation of marine faunas, does not seem to have personally 

 done much dredging in the Forth. The period during which 

 he occupied and adorned the Chair of Natural History in the 

 University was too brief and too fully occupied with other 

 work to admit of this. 



The work of Professor Allman on the Hydroids and 

 Polyzoa is well known, and his writings are indispensable to 

 the student of marine zoology. They will be very frequently 

 quoted in these lists. 



The researches of Dr Thomas Strethill Wright are among 

 the most valuable of those which we have to notice. Dr 

 Wright gave much attention to the Protozoa and Coelenterata, 

 and contributed to the Proceedings of the Eoyal Physical 

 Society a series of papers, entitled, " Observations on British 

 Zoophytes," in which the histology, physiology, and develop- 

 ment of many of the Hydroids are treated in the most 

 admirable manner. 



About twenty years ago a committee of marine zoology was 

 formed in the Eoyal Physical Society, for the purpose of 

 dredging the Forth and neighbouring waters. The preparation 

 of a list does not seem to have been an object with this com- 

 mittee, but some of their rarer finds are recorded in the 

 Proceedings of the Society. 



The most complete list hitherto published is that by Dr 

 M'Bain, E.N., in the Eev. Walter Wood's book, " The East 

 Neuk of Fife." The specimens mentioned in that work were 



