Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of HMS “Challenger” during the Years 1873–76, under the command of Captain George S Nares, RN, FRS, and the late Captain Frank T Thomson, RN

Abstract

WITH these recently published volumes, the series of Reports on the zoological results of the Challenger Expedition, comes to a close. Volume XXXI. contains three Reports, the first of which is on the “Alcyonaria,” by Profs. E. Perceval Wright and Th. Studer. It would appear that on the first distribution of the zoological treasures of the Expedition, the Alcyonaria were given to Prof. von Kölliker to describe, and the first part of his Report on the Pennatulidæ, forms the Second Report published in 1880. From a note of the editor, we learn that Prof. Kölliker being unwilling to undertake the remainder of the group, the fixed forms were committed to Dr. E. P. Wright for description. After the appearance of the “Narrative of the Expedition” in which a few of the more remarkable of the new species were described by this author, Prof. Studer consented to join Dr. Wright in preparing the Report, and all the details were worked out in unison.

Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. “Challenger” during the Years 1873–76, under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S., and the late Captain Frank T. Thomson, R.N.

Prepared under the superintendence of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson., &c., Director of the Civilian Staff on board, and now of John Murray, LL.D., Ph.D., &c., one of the Naturalists of the Expedition. Zoology—Vols. XXXI. and XXXII. (Published by Order of Her Majesty's Government. London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, and sold by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1889.)