508 • ' ' ; ' Miscellan eout. 



to Prof. Huxley ; the Gasteropoda and Lamellibrauchs to the liev. 

 E. B. Watson ; the Brachiopoda ■ to Mr. Davidson ; the Ostracoda 

 Copepoda to Mr. G. S. Brady ; the Rhizopoda to Mr. H. B. Brady ; the 

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

 the Annelida to Dr. M'Intosh ; the Gephyrea to Prof. Ray Lankes- 

 ter ; the Bryozoa to Mr. Busk ; the Hydromedusae to Dr, Allman ; 

 the Corals to Mr. Moseley ; the Crinoidea to Sir Wy ville Thomson ; 

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

 roidea) to Mr. A. Agassiz ; the Ophiuroidea to Mr, Lyman ; the 

 Spongida to Prof. 0, i-'chmidt ; the Radiolaria 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. Wild's excellent artistic services are 

 retained ; and Mr. Pearcey is also employed. Sir WyviUe Thomson, 

 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 infinitely greater than that of all the others. 



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

 penter, Gwyn Jeffreys, Norman, T, Wright, Carter, Rupert Jones, 

 Spence Bate, Archer. Of course 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 palaeon- 

 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 (jives xip much paying worh, will receive .£500 

 for the year and £1 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 diff'erent departments. But, doubtless, 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 wiU 

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

 When the Government bring forward the motion of supply they will 

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

 quirements of ihe case. 



I forward you the vouchers for my statements. 



Yours, &c., 

 May 25, 1877. P. Maetin 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 WyviUe Thomson in the cui'rent number of 

 the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural 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 



