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THE DISTEIBUTION OF BKITISH ANNELIDS. 

 By the Ebv. Hilderic Friend. 



(Continued from p. 146.) 



Bibliography. 



1. — * A Catalogue of the British Non-parasitical Worms in 

 the British Museum.' By George Johnston, M.D. London, 

 1865. 



2. — * A Monograph of the Order Oligocheeta.' By Frank 

 E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S. Oxford, 1895. 



3. — " Contributions towards a Monograph of the British and 

 Irish Oligochseta." By Rowland Southern, B.Sc. Proc. Eoy. 

 Irish Acad. vol. xxvii. 1909. 



4. — " The Oligochaeta (Earthworms and their Allies) of the 

 Forth Area." By William Evans, F.E.S.E. Proc. Eoy. Phys. 

 Soc. Edin. vol. xviii. 1910. 



5. — " British Tree and Earthworms." By Eev. Hilderic 

 Friend, F.L.S. Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiv. 1892; and other 

 papers alluded to by Beddard and Southern. 



Let us now inquire into our authorities. It is a striking fact 

 that, while almost every Natural History Society carefully records 

 finds among flowering plants, lichens, mosses, micro-fungi, 

 butterflies, beetles, and all other classes of plants and animals, 

 none has ever given attention to our marvellous range of Anne- 

 lids.* With the exception of the papers contributed by myself 

 during the past twenty years to a vast number of local magazines, 

 journals, and newspapers, I do not know of anything having 

 been done in England to further our knowledge of their distri- 

 bution ; while Mr. Evans of Edinburgh and Mr. Southern of 

 Dublin are the only other systematic workers in the whole of the 

 British Isles. 



- An exception must be made in the case of Devonshire, while Sussex 

 and some others have published lists. 



