I 
Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen s Pacific Expedition 
1914 — 16 . 
VIII. 
Echinoderms of New Zealand and the Auckland- 
Campbell Islands. 
I. Echinoidea. 
By 
Dr. T h. Mortensen. 
(With Pis. VI-VIII). 
In publishing this first part of my report on the Echinoderms 
of New Zealand and the Auckland-Campbell Islands it is my 
very agreable duty to express my great indebtedness to the New 
Zealand Government for the courtesy shown me during my 
visit to New Zealand in November 1914—February 1915. The 
permit to accompany the G. S. „Amokura" on her trip to the Auck¬ 
land and Campbell Islands and the G. S. „Hinemoa“ on her trip 
round the North Island of New Zealand was of the most eminent 
importance to me, enabling me to undertake investigations in those 
regions which I should otherwise have been unable to accomplish. 
Rather extensive collections were made during these trips, which 
will very considerably enrich our knowledge of the marine fauna 
of these regions. Of course, I feel myself under special oblig¬ 
ation to have these collections worked out separately and at the 
earliest possible opportunity. Some of the reports have already been 
published (Freeliving Nematodes, by Hj. Ditlev sen, Ascidia, by 
Pr. Bo vi en; Bryozoa, by Ernst Marcus, the present report 
being the fourth of the series l ) and several more are in prepar- 
ation; it may be expected that the material will, in the main, have 
l ) These papers have been published in the present volume of this Jour¬ 
nal as respectively No.s III, IV and VI of the „Papers from Dr. Th. 
Mortensen’s Pacific Expedition 1914—16“. 
