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XVIII. A Catalogue of Reeent Cephalopoda. By William E. 

 HoYLE, Esq., M.A.(Oxon.), F.E.S.E. 



(Read 17tli March 1886.) 



The latest attempt to give a complete systematic account 

 of the Cephalopoda is that of Tryon, published in 1879 ; but 

 it labours under several disadvantages — the first and most 

 serious being that the author has given almost all his atten- 

 tion to Conchology properly so-called, and has apparently 

 treated the Cephalopods rather with a view of making his 

 Manual complete than from any special interest in them; 

 secondly, the mode of arrangement adopted of placing all the 

 synonymy in the form of an alphabetical index at the end of 

 the volume, renders it exceedingly difficult to ascertain what 

 he includes under each species; and, furthermore, a large 

 number of new forms have been described since the publica- 

 tion of his work, and several important contributions have 

 been made to our knowledge of the relations of previously 

 described groups. 



Under these circumstances it appeared that the compilation 

 of such a list as the present, even though it might fail — in- 

 deed necessarily must fail — to give a completely satisfactory 

 Survey of the class, would nevertheless be of considerable 

 use to workers in this interesting branch of Malacology, were 

 it only as a reliable index to the literature of the subject, 

 and I therefore resolved to draw up in a form fit for publi- 



