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Shetland. In these he took a leading part, and was associated 

 particularly with J. Gwyn Jeffreys. The lists of the captures 

 made at the dredging expeditions off the coasts of North- 

 umberland and Durham and as far out as the Dogger Bank 

 were published in the Transactions, several of the members of 

 the Field Club taking part in the work. The Crustacea were 

 reported on by Canon Norman. 



Dr. Norman was President of the Field Club in 1866 and 

 again in 1881. His address in x866 was devoted to a sketch 

 of the history of the Field Club, but in 1881 he gave a 

 survey of what was known of the Abysses of the Ocean. 

 This is a noteworthy paper, for it is a clear statement of what 

 was known then of the nature of the sea bottoms at great depths, 

 and contains, in full, lists of the animals which had been 

 proved to live at such depths, and a discussion of the 

 relationships of these to the better known and richer fauna 

 of moderate depths and the shore. 



He made many friends amongst the naturalists of the North 

 of England, but a community of interests brought him 

 especially into association with Professor G. S. Brady. The 

 friendship, started in 1858 and continued to the end, was 

 productive of many papers dealing with marine and fresh-water 

 Micro-Crustacea, culminating in the monograph on the 

 Marine and Fresh-water Ostracoda of Britain, published in 

 1896 in the Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, and in 

 the publication, after many years, of the Catalogue of the 

 Crustacea of Northumberland and Durham in the Transactions 

 of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, etc., in 

 1909. Another noteworthy and exhaustive catalogue of the 

 same kind — the Crustacea of Devon and Cornwall — was 

 published in 1906 with the collaboration of the Scottish 

 naturalist Dr. Thomas Scott. 



His work brought him also into intimate friendship with 

 the naturalists who during this period were attempting to get 

 a knowledge of marine, and especially of deep sea life, as Sir 

 Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, M. and G. O. Sars and 



