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tunate in not meeting with a larger number of these 
colouring matters yielding characteristic banded spectra. 
One of the most striking results of the present series of 
observations is the comparatively large number of animal 
coloured bodies yielding banded spectra which have been met 
with. It must, however, be remembered that in the present 
instance also a very large number of animal colouring matters 
occurring in animals of most various kinds spread over the 
greater part of the world have been passed in review with 
a very large proportion of negative results, and that the 
results here published represent the fruit of work extend¬ 
ing over a period of three years and a half. 
Professor Lankester in his paper on Blue Stentorin above 
cited' enumerates the few animal colouring matters known 
at the time of the publication of his paper to yield banded 
spectra. The list must now be more than doubled, and should 
stand thus: 
Haemoglobin (for its distribution see Lankester, ‘ Proc. 
Royal Soc,’ No. 140, 1873). 
Chlorocruorin (Lankester, £ Quart. Journ. Micro. Science,’ 
Nov., 1867, ‘ Journal of Anat. and Physiol./ vol. iv.) 
Bonellein (Sorby, 'Quart. Journ. Micro. Science,’ vol. xv, 
166). 
Bile-pigments and derivatives. 
Chlorophylloid "substances (in Spongilla fluviatilis, Sorby, 
'Quart. Journ. Micro. Science,’ vol. xv, p. 7). 
Turacxn (A. H. Church, ‘Phil. Trans. S. Soc./ 1869, 
p. 627). 
Aphidein and allies (Sorby, ‘ Quart. Journ. Micro. 
Science/ vol. xi). 
Actiniochrome, from Bunodcs crassicornis (IT. N. Moseley, 
‘ Quart. Journ. Micro. Science/ vol. xiii, p. 143, 1873). 
Blue stentorin (Lankester, ibid., p. 139). 
Pigment of Odax and Labricthys (fish) (George Francis, 
of Adelaide, ‘Nature/ p. 167, Dec. 30th, 1875). 
Polyperythrin. 
Red colouring of Cccnopsammia. 
Two distinct colouring matters in Adamsia sp. 
Purple pentacrinin. 
Red pentacrinin. 
R. Lankester, ‘ Quart. Journ. Microscopical Science,’ Voi. XIII, new 
scr. Sec also other papers in the same Journal. 
1 Abstract of a “ Report on the Spectroscopic Examination of Animal 
Substances,” presented to the British Association at Exeter, 18C9, by E. 
R. Lankester, ‘ Journal of Anatomy and Physiology,’ vol. iv. 
