Botany and Zoology. 



In addition to the Crinoids noticed by Profess 



sor Thon 





ne of his former preliminary reports addressed 



to the 



i:. 



ocietv, he has published a short account of two r 



jmarkab 



!*'!- 



•a l.e'iondnc to the family of Apiocrinidse, which i 



iredescr 





{ l it} l ,;crn t „i'in\A TL/ocruam, the former from a 



depth 





ithoms, south of Cape Clear, the latter from a 



lep.ho 



f 1 



ithoms, 300 miles east of St. Paul's Rocks. Th 





s il 



•ated bv five cuts, and forms the l.e-inning of 



No. 66 





ourualofthe Linnean Soeietv for December, ls76 



. AV/H 





allied to Rhh or /„«*, while llyocHnuz h 1- a si, 







lancet.) Poterlocrh,^ and Cyxthorrh.m. h\ the 







produ. 





' ""Pi 1 



ed. The dir, 



: Kehi: 



.dermis (Holotlmrians.(M.iu 

 __,. It had however been sup] 

 that the plutean development was the normal mode of repr< 

 tion anion"; Echinoderms, although the complete homology be- 

 tween the direct and plutean embryology has been pointed out by 

 , the Echinoder 





■eiv that tee 



ing field of spe 



■ sketch 



rod ope, 







; Falkland Islands 

 Mliculata A. Ag.) ; 



Herd 1- Ker-uelen Isls. (C 



W.T.. li , ..-.mttns W.T., Ey,,,,:,,,.^,- 



and Ophioeoma didelphys W. T. These species are all figured 

 with the yoi . A -^ G - 



4. Zooloqy of the'chHllw I- ! ' ' ' editors learn 



byletterfre ? h,Decl8) 



that he h,s found the material a wonder,' 



amount of it, coming as it mainly 



'•*■ a lifeless desert region. He also gives the following information 



v. suit* and the collections are to be work 

 Bund ry specialists : A 1 i ." ] >" zo f > Dn 



■- --... -.!-.- ' ■■■■■■,■ 



the Radiolaria ; Moseley of the Challanger the Polyps : 

 on the Challenger will work up th 



s(Fo 



w me groups are not y 

 who worked up the " Po 



mined upon, but th 



,11 probably have cha 



