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Identifier: naturalhistory04brit (find matches)
Title: Natural history
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904) British Museum (Natural History) Fletcher, L. (Lazarus), 1854-1921 Bell, F. J. (Francis Jeffrey), 1855-1924
Subjects: Geology -- Antarctica Zoology -- Antarctica Botany -- Antarctica
Publisher: London, Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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Antarctic (Discovery) K\p. -.1111.1 pi. \ 11. Xanthocalanus magnus (1—9). antarcticus (10, 1 1) ECHINODERMA. I. By F. JEFFREY BELL, M.A. Emeritus Professor and Fellow of Kings College (University of London). (5 Plates.) HAD it not been for the earlier return of the Gauss, this report would probablyhave had the distinction of signalising the re-discovery of the interesting Criuoidgenus, Promaekocrinus, which, as its name denotes, was one of the prizes of the voyageof the Challenger. As in the collection of the Southern Cross, 1 am again able to call attention to.some remarkable variations within what are obviously the limits of single species.The specimens which exhibit these variations could not have been obtained butby very careful collecting, and in the case of CtjCethm it is of importance to notethat they were all taken in a comparatively small area; the examples of this genusreceived by two naturalists, who made a number of species with them, were all takenfrom stations comparat

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