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An Account of the Alcyonarians collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship “Investigator” in the Indian Ocean

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THE first part of the memoir of the Alcyonarians of the Indian Ocean was published in 1906, and reviewed in NATURE of May 2, 1907. The second part deals with the shallow-water species, and fully maintains the high standard set by the first in wealth of detail and sumptuous illustration.

An Account of the Alcyonarians collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship “Investigator” in the Indian Ocean.

By Prof. J. Arthur Thomson J. J. Simpson. Part ii., The Alcyonarians of the Littoral Area. With a Report on the Species of Dendronephthya by Dr. W. D. Henderson. Pp. xviii + 319 + ix plates. (Calcutta: Indian Museum, 1909.)

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H., S. An Account of the Alcyonarians collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship “Investigator” in the Indian Ocean . Nature 83, 483–484 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083483a0

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