(1) The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes (2) An Account of the Mcyonarians collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship “Investigator” in the Indian Ocean. I The Alcyonarians of the Deep Sea

Abstract

THE memoirs contained in the above-named publications belong, if taken alone, to that large class of scientific papers which are commonly said to be “of interest only to specialists,” but in reality they betoken much more than this, since they denote a great activity in the investigation of the biological problems presented by the Indian Ocean. Far from overlapping, they are complementary to each other and to a third piece of contemporary work which does not fall within the scope of this notice—the Ceylon pearl-oyster report.

(1) The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes.

By J. Stanley Gardiner. Vol. ii. Part iv. and Supplements i. and ii., with index. Pp. 807–1079; 34 plates and figures in the text. (Cambridge: University Press; 1905 and 1906.)

(2) An Account of the Mcyonarians collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship “Investigator” in the Indian Ocean. I. The Alcyonarians of the Deep Sea.

By J. Arthur Thomson W. D. Henderson. Pp. xvi + 132; 10 plates, with colours. (Calcutta: The Indian Museum, 1906.)