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keen and delicate artistic sense, joined to a ripening talent in 

 literary expression. The same week-end that he was reported 

 missing an article on Mudeford written by him appeared in the 

 " Saturday Review." In a subsequent number, the editor, G. 

 A. B. Dewar, himself a careful naturalist and a lover of Hamp- 

 shire, paid this tribute to his memory: — " We are sorry to hear 

 that among the missing in France last month was Private Cooper, 

 author of the wistful and beautiful little paper " At the Fishing 

 Village," printed in this Review on September 30th. The artist 

 and naturalist met and harmonised in him — if we must put it thus 

 in the past tense. The scene he described — Mudeford and Hengist- 

 bury, and the strange withy wood nestling close to the side of the 

 huge sand and mud headland, with the Norman Priory and the 

 gleaming estuary — is of haunting loveliness at all seasons. One 

 recalls a wonderful page from Richard Jefferies : ' They go on 

 without me.' " 



W.M.R. 



Some Rare and Interesting Local Isopods. 



W. Omer Cooper, F.L.S. 



QJOME time ago I gave a short lecture on the local species of 

 ^ terrestrial Isopoda or Woodlice, and it is now my intention to 

 give you some account of the more interesing marine Isopods 

 which occur in the Bournemouth district. It can hardly be said 

 that any of the marine species belonging to this group are well 

 known to the general public, but at the same time a few species 

 make themselves more or less conspicuous on account of the 

 damage which they cause, a good example being the Fish-lice, 

 which often attack cod and other fishes in incredible numbers and 

 are consequently of no little economical importance. Again, the 

 destruction of the piles of piers which is so noticeable at Totland 

 and other places around here is largely caused by an Isopod — - 

 Limnoria lignorum, or, as it is called in some places, the Gribble — 

 while the strange parasitic Isopod Bopyrus is the cause of the 

 familiar swellings often seen on the heads of prawns, and workers 

 on other groups of Crustacea are usually well-acquainted with 

 some of the peculiar and misshapen parasites belonging to this 

 order. It is not, however, the most conspicuous and well-known 

 species which are of the greatest interest and I am treating my 

 subject from the zoological, rather than the economical, stand- 

 point, as in this way I hope to touch upon most of the more 

 interesting features of the local species. 



The marine Isopoda do not show that uniformity of structure 

 which, more especially as regards the appendages, is such a feature 

 of the terrestrial species. They are all more or less dorso-ventrally 

 flattened, but at the same time they present almost every type of 

 body and of appendage known among the Crustacea, for they vary 



