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2. A large number of specimens from the Cape, collected partly 

 by myself in 1883, and brought to England alive, and partly by 

 Mr. C. Stewart, of the Royal Hotel, Wynberg, who in the 

 winters of 1884-85 sent me a large additional supply of live 

 animals collected on Table Mountain. I am under great 

 obligations to Mr. Stewart, not only for these specimens, 

 but for the great help which he gave me when I was at the 

 Cape. 



3. A large number of living specimens from Wellington, New 



Zealand. These are the only specimens of this species which 



have ever been brought to England alive, and I owe them to 



the kindness of two gentlemen, who were personally unknown 



to me until they began to help me in my Peripatus work. Mr. 



Noel Barraud, of Wellington, at the request of my friend Mr. 



G. E. Anson, M.A., of Trinity College, began to hunt for 



Peripatus, and was successful in finding them. His specimens 



were, after two unsuccessful attempts, brought to England 



alive by Mr. Edgar J. Evans, chief officer of the Shaw, Savill, 



Albion Company's magnificent steamer ''Tainui." The first 



two lots all died soon after leaving Rio Janeiro, but in the 



third attempt Mr. Evans was successful in finding a place near 



the cold chamber, where the temperature in the tropics was 



not too high for the animals. Since the third attempt Mr. 



Evans has been successful every voyage. My most sincere 



thanks are owing to both of these gentlemen, who, though not 



specially interested in natural history, have put themselves to 



very considerable trouble and inconvenience to satisfy what 



would have seemed to most people an absurd whim of a perfect 



stranger. The living animals brought by Mr. Evans have 



enabled me to give a much more complete account of the New 



Zealand species than if I had had to rely only on the somewhat 



shrunk and contracted specimens in Balfour's material ; and 



the embryos found in them are now being used by Miss Sheldon 



(No. 45), of Newnham College, who is engaged in prepai'ing a 



memoir of their development. 



4. Several specimens of the neotropical group of species 

 from the Museum of Copenhagen, most kindly sent to me by 



