272 New Species discovered. — [CHAP. Xv. 
at present but limited, and a large number of species new to 
our Fauna may, I am satisfied, be found, if properly looked 
after. I trust, therefore, that you may extend your knowl- 
edge of the crustacea of the Moray Firth to this branch of 
the subject.” 
It would occupy too much space to detail the contents 
of the letters which Edward received from Mr. Norman 
and Mr. Spence Bate while their respective works were in 
process of publication. But there are several facts in them 
worthy of being noticed. There was one crustacean about 
which some difficulty had arisen. It was the Mysis Spinife- 
ra, which Edward had first found in the Moray Firth in the 
year 1858. He had sent it to one of his correspondents, in 
order that he might give it its name. But it remained un- 
noticed and unknown for a period of about four years, when 
it was rediscovered in Sweden by M. Goes, who at once 
published the fact. “Thus,” says Edward, “the first find- 
er, as well as the country in which this crustacean was first 
found, have both been ignored in the records of science.” 
Edward discovered many new species, some of which had 
never been met with before, and others which had not been 
met with in Britain. Some were recognized and named, 
but others were not. “The number of specimens I collect- 
ed,” says Edward, “was immense. It must have been so 
from the various methods I adopted to procure them, and 
from the fact that I never lost a single opportunity of ob- 
taining even but one object when it could be got. Labor, 
time, cold, wet, privation, were nothing, so that I could but 
secure the specimen that I sought for. .... There are still 
several new species which I discovered and sent to gentle- 
men years ago. All I knew about them, from letters I re- 
ceived in return, is that they were new; but whether they 
have ever received names, or whether the discoveries have 
been made public, I do not know.” 
Mr. Spence Bate did every justice to Edward in the dis- 
coveries which he made of new species, in connection with 
