VI 
PREFACE. 
Thomson, of Perth, Mr. E. Ray Lankester, the late Dr. 
Adamson, of St. Andrews, the late Mrs. Macdonald, Mr. 
Walker (the University Librarian), and many others have 
also specially interested themselves in the marine animals of 
St. Andrews. 
My thanks are due to the following gentlemen for their 
valued aid in the several departments: viz., to Dr. Bower- 
bank in the Sponges ; Mr. H. B. Brady, in the Foraminifera; 
Mr. Busk and the Rev. T. Hincks, in the Zoophytes and 
Polyzoa; the Rev. A. M. Norman, in the Echinoderms, and 
also, with Mr. Spence Bate and Mr. G. S. Brady, in the 
Crustacea j and Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys, in the Mollusks. I have 
also to remember the kind attention, in regard to the Uni¬ 
versity Library and Museum, of Principal Tulloch, Professors 
Bell, Macdonald, and Heddle; while Mr. R. Walker, the 
Librarian, has supplied me with the names of a few ad¬ 
ditional fishes. 
The Plates are the earlier efforts of my late sister ; and the 
vignettes (with the exception of a sketch of the Harbour by 
my nephew) are reduced outlines of various pictures and 
coloured drawings by the same lady, who, with other relatives, 
was equally persevering in collecting and in portraying. 
The lists for the most part appeared in the ‘Annals and 
Magazine of Natural History’ for the present year (February 
to December). 
I have to acknowledge, in conclusion, the skilful touch of 
Mr. Ford in his rendering of the Plates. The Woodcuts 
were engraved in Edinburgh, by Mr. J. M. Corner, who 
spared no pains in their execution. 
Murthly, 
December 1874. 
