IV 
THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGEE. 
The voyages in the latter part of the eighteenth century and the begioning of the 
nineteenth showed little improvement in this respect. Thus the cruise round the world 
in the ships “ King George ” and “ Queen Charlotte ” ^ gave no addition to our knowledge 
of this and some other invertebrate groups, though crabs, shells, and birds are mentioned 
and figured, and the same may be said of the French Voyage de la Perouse autour du 
Monde.^ Similar remarks apply to the trip to Cuba and St. Domingo by M. E. 
Descourtily,^ and to Baron Albert von Sack’s Voyage to Surinam,^ The cruise of H.M.S. 
“ Investigator ” to Australia and other parts was even less productive in this department. 
Captain Tuckey’s voyage to the Zaire (usually called Congo) contains a note® by J. 
Cranch that a new species of Nereis was taken on a bit of floating wood, lat. 0° 21' 0" N., 
long. 5° 49' 37" E., together with a genus not known to him. A single species {Nereis 
heteropoda) also is given by Chamisso and Eysenhardt in their Voyage Round the World. ^ 
There can be little doubt that during Sir John Ross’ two Arctic voyages (1818 and 
1829) Annelids of considerable interest must have been obtained, indeed, he mentions in 
his first voyage that “worms’’ were procured in the mud at the depth of 1000 fathoms. 
Unfortunately the collections in each case have disappeared. 
In the Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, 
by Captain King, the versatile talents of Dr. J, E. Gray added an Annelid to the list, 
viz., Leodice gigantea, Savigny,* which measured nearly five feet in length. 
The presence of so acute an officer as Captain Ed. Sabine in Parry’s first voyage ® to 
Greenland, accounts for the mention of two species of Annelids from the “Fauna 
Groenlandica,’’ viz.. Poly me cirrata and Polynoe scabra. The notices of Annelids, 
however, at this time by navigators are brief and fragmentary, a single species, jDerhaps, 
only coming under observation, as for instance in Eschscholtz’s voyage from Cronstadt to 
St. Peter and St. Paul, in which Tomopteris oniscifoj'inis is mentioned. Even in more 
ambitious voyages they made a small appearance, as for example in Freycinet’s Voyage 
autour du Monde. In other expeditions certain groups of Vermes become prominent, 
as in Riippel’s Atlas zu der Reise im nbrdlichen Africa, where the Planarians and 
Gephyreans {Sipunctdi) are specially noticed by Leu chart. The Nemerteans, again, 
occupy a plate in the Voyage de 1’ Astrolabe, and reference is made to the elegant forms 
and rich coloration of such Annelids as Amphitrite, Serpida, Nereis, and TerehellaP 
In the Voyages en Scandinavie et en Laponie,^^ considerable attention is given to 
1 By Captains Portlock and Dickson, London, 1789, 4to. 
^ 4 vols., Paris, 1797. ^ Voyages d’un Naturaliste, &c., Paris, 1809. 
* London, 1810. ® 2 vols. 4to., London, 1814. 
® Narrative of an Expedition to Explore tlie Eiver Zaire, &c., London, 1818, Appendix, p. 418. 
T Berolini, 1819-1822 (?). « London, 1818-1822, p. 437. 
^ Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry’s First Voyage for the Discovery of a N.W. Passage, &c., London, 
1824, p. 239. 
Frankfurt am Main, 1826. 
1838-1840. 
Voyage de I’Astrolabe (ZooL), MM. Quoy et Gaimard, Pari.?, 1834. 
