62 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Marine Invertebrata new to the British Seas,” published 
by the Royal Society of Edinburgh im 1851, recording that :— 
“The animals, either wholly new, or new to Britain, described 
in the following communication, were taken during a yachting 
cruise with our indefatigable friend, Mr. MacAndrew, among 
the Hebrides, in the month of August, 1850.” Amongst 
the strange animals described and figured in this paper is 
the remarkable Ascidian, Dzazona vwiolacea (the Syntethys 
hebridica of Forbes and Goodsir), which was discussed some- 
what fully in a recent number of this Annual Report (No. 26, 
for 1912). 
Fic. 6. Diazona violacea in the living condition (After Forbes and Goodsir.) 
Returning to 1840, his age was now twenty-six, and 
this was the year when he published his “ British Starfishes ”— 
the first of his larger and more important works. It remained 
as the standard work on the subject for many years, and is 
