﻿President's Address. 



64c 



Having dealt separately witli the various groups in turn 

 there remains only the presentation of the necessary 

 SuMMAEY, which I give below in tabular form. It enables 

 us to comprehend more clearly what has been done, and 

 what there is still to do in the way of cataloguing the Fauna 

 of the Forth Area; it furnishes, in a nutshell as it were, 

 the answer to the question formulated at the beginning of 

 the paper. Without wishing to make a comparison (that 

 might profitably engage our attention on a future occasion), 

 I may mention that the number of animals catalogued in the 

 recent (1901) " Handbook " of the Fauna, etc., of the Clyde 

 Area, is about 5930, inclusive of doubtful cases. With 

 subsequent records, it must now exceed 6000. Taken all 

 over, the fauna of Clyde will, I believe, prove to be richer 

 than that of Forth both in species and individuals. 





Number of 





Phylum or other Group. 



opecies 



jiiSLimaieci 



recorded in 



number in 





print or in 



the Area. 





my MS. lists. 





Protozoa : — For details see p. 8, . 



306 



800-900 



Porifera, p. 13, ....... 



24 



About 50 



Coelenterata and Ctenopbora, p. 14, . 



123 



,, 135 



Echinodermata, p. 17, 



34 



„ 36 



Platyhelmintlies (Turbellaria, Trematoda, Ces- ) 



37 



„ 170 



toda), p. 18, \ 



Nemertinea, p, 22, . 



Nemathelmintlies (Nematoda, etc.), p. 24, . 



11 



„ 20 



21 



,, 150 



Chsetognatha, p. 26, . 



1 



J 2 



Rotifera, p. 26, . 



170 



\, 270 



Gastrotricha, p. 28, ...... 



2 



,, 5 



Chsetopoda, p. 29, . 



94 



220 



Hirudinea, p. 31, 



10 



„ 17 



Gephyrea aind Phoronis, pp. 32, 33, , 



6 



,, 8or9 



Polyzoa, p. 34, . 



74 



„ 85 



Mollusca, p. 35, . . . 



339 



,, 375 



Arachnida + Liiiguatulida, pp. 39, 42, 



431 



„ 550 



Tardigrada, p. 42, . . ... 



17 



25 



Pycnogonida, p. 43, 



10 



,, 12 



Crustacea, p. 45, ...... 



796 



,, 850 



Myriapoda, p. 47, 



33 



38 



Insecta, p. 48, . . . . . 



3848 



5700 



Tunicata, p. 56, ...... 



22 



40 



Pisces, p. 56, 



143 



„ 145 



Amphibia and Reptilia, p. 60, . 



9 



9 



Aves, p. 62, 



253 



,, 260 



Mammalia, p. 64a, 



51 



,, 53 



Totals of all groups. 



6865 



,, 10,000 



Of the above 6865 species, I have met with some 4250 in 



