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The account is published in the volume of British Association Reports 
referring to the meeting held at Southampton in September 1882. 
The original description and figures together with other matter, 
including the footnote to which Mr. Haswell takes objection were 
communicated to the Linnean Society of London in January 1883 and 
published in September 1883, eighteen months after my observations 
and the writing of the account. 
Mr. Haswell read a paper concerning the Polynoina at the Anti- 
podes in June 1882 of which event we on this side of the globe were 
naturally unaware, when, in the very same month (June 1882), I sent 
in my report to the Committee of the British Association. Desiring to 
give recognition to the meritorious activity of a Colonial Naturalist — 
I mentioned on a later occasion in a note to my paper, when sending 
it in to the Linnean Society, that Mr. Haswell (as I learnt in October 
1882) had since my account and drawings of the Nephridia were com- 
pleted, and the abstract delivered to the British Association Committee, 
published a statement concerning those organs. I now regret having 
made any reference to Mr. Haswell’s paper at all, for my doing so 
appears to have encouraged him to put forward unwarrantable preten- 
sions and to seek a controversy with me. 
There really was nothing in Mr. Haswell’s paper which called 
for citation by me excepting his recognition of the erroneous nature 
of the statements of Ehlers. 
Mr. Haswell added very little to our knowledge of the Nephri- 
dia of Polynoina, he merely expressed the pious opinion that the 
orifices seen by Grube were the orifices of Nephridia, an opinion 
which had been held but not claimed as a discovery by others before 
Mr. Haswell and indeed was expressly stated as probable by Cla- 
parede, when speaking of Hermadion fragile, as I mentioned in my 
paper. Mr. Haswell was unable »to describe the form« of the inter- 
nal funnels connected with Grube’s orifices and gave no drawings of 
the Nephridia, because he had seen nothing which could be drawn. 
Mr. Haswell must have considerable boldness to venture to claim 
the »discovery« of the Nephridia in the Polynoina upon such worthless 
grounds. On the other hand, what I have done in the matter, is this. I 
have prepared and published actual sections of the Nephridia and draw- 
ings of the complete organ shewing its funnel-like character. 
The evidence which I was able to submit to the British Association in 
September 1882 on this subject, was conclusive as to the nature of 
these organs. 
I am quite prepared irrespective of dates to submit the question 
to Naturalists as to whether Mr. Haswell is justified in claiming to 
