[Reprinted from ‘‘ The Annals of Scottish Natural History,’ October 1896.] 
ON SOME NEW AND RARE COPEPODA FROM 
Tak CEYDE. 
By THomas Scort, F.L.S., 
Mem. Soc. Zool. France, Naturalist to the Fishery Board for Scotland, 
and ANDREW SCOTT, 
Fisheries Assistant, Liverpool. 
PLATE IV. 
THE Firths of Forth and Clyde, which are the two most 
important estuaries, have had both their fauna and flora in- 
vestigated by quite a number of able and enthusiastic natur- 
alists, and zoology and botany have been enriched by many 
interesting and important discoveries that, as a result of these 
investigations, have been made in both these branches of 
study. Yet notwithstanding all the research of previous 
years, prolonged and thorough though it has been, much still 
remains to be done ere it may reasonably be asserted that, 
even in regard to these restricted areas, our knowledge of the 
