682 Zoology. 



1874. 



15 specimens of Nymphon from Spitzbergen ; presented by 

 the Rev. A. E. Eaton. 



1876-1878. 



3 specimens forming the basis for Mr. Miers's description of 

 Nymphon gracilipes and Tanystylum styligerum, collected by the 

 Rev. A. E. Eaton on the " Transit of Venus " Expedition to 

 Kerguelen, were presented by the Royal Society in 1876 (see 

 "Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist." (4), xxi., p. 76, 1875, and "Phil. 

 Trans.," clxviii., pp. 200-214). In 1877-1878, with the Crustacea 

 collected on the Arctic Expedition by Mr. H. C. Hart and 

 Capt. Feilden, were received 28 specimens of the genus Nymphon, 

 of which one species was described by E. J. Miers as N. obtusi- 

 digitatum (see "Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist." (4), xx, p. 108, 1877); 

 presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. 



1881. 



In addition to the " Challenger" collection, which was received 

 in this year (see p. 681), six specimens of Nymphon stromii and 

 curtipes, were presented by Dr. P. P. C. Hoek. Dr. Hoek also 

 despatched to the Museum the Pycnogonida dredged by the 

 "Knight-Errant" in the Faroe Channel, a report of which was 

 published on pp. 94-99 of the report on the Pycnogonida of the 

 " Challenger" The collection contained 81 specimens referable 

 to species of Nymphon, Collossendeis and Pijcnogonum. 



1890-1892. 



In 1890, 80 specimens referable to 13 named species from 

 the coasts of Norway, Spitzbergen, and Jan Mayen, were received 

 in exchange from the Christiania Museum. 



In 1891, 9 specimens referable to 6 species of Nymphon from 

 the Kara Sea, identified by Dr. H. J. Hansen, were received in 

 exchange from the Copenhagen Museum. In 1892, 10 specimens, 

 still unnamed, collected by P. Bassett Smith, Esq., Surg. R.N., 

 on the Holothuria Bank, were presented by the Lords of the 

 Admiralty. 



1898-1899. 



120 specimens belonging to six species of Nymphon undPycno- 

 gonum from the Faroe Channel and Trondhjem Fiord, were 



