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A SUPPLEMENTARY number of the Niederländisches Archiv für Zoologie just issued is composed of an instalment of five papers describing certain of the animals collected or dredged during the two Arctic voyages of the schooner William Barents, together with a list of all the places dredged at, and a map with these and the track marked on it. The ship visited the north of Spitzbergen and the west coast of Novaia Zemlia, and stretched northwards thence almost to Franz-Josef Land. All the dredgings, except two off the north coast of Spitzbergen, were made in the Barents Sea, between Novaia Zemlia and the north of Norway and Bear Island. Dr. R. Horst reports on the Annelids. He found no new species amongst the fifty-one obtained in the Barents Sea. Hjalmar Theel found in the Kara Sea, on the east side of Novaia Zemlia, ninety species. There can be little doubt that the fauna of the two seas, which join in several places, must be nearly identical, yet amongst the thirty-one species from the Barents Sea are fourteen not yet collected in the Kara Sea. The Annelid collection seems to have been rather a meagre one, and must not be taken as representative. The Pycnogonids are described by Dr. P. P. C. Hoek. Examples of these were obtained on fourteen out of the entire thirty dredgings made. They are of eight species, one of which is new. Amongst them is one species of the genus Colossendeis, numerous forms of which were obtained by the Challenger in southern latitudes, some attaining there gigantic proportions. The Lamellibranchiata are described by Dr. van Haren Noman, who appends to his paper an important memoir, illustrated by three plates, on the anatomy of the eyes, gills, and other parts of Pecten Grænlandicus and other forms; Dr. A. A. W. Hubrecht contributes a list of the fishes; and Dr. F. A. Jentink a few notes on the field-mouse of Novaia Zemlia, Curriculus torquatus, which, unlike all of its allies, turns white in winter. The animal ranges over the whole of Arctic America, Europe, and Asia, and in late geological periods extended as far south as England, Germany, and the basin of the Loire.
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Zoology of the Dutch Arctic Expedition 1 . Nature 24, 57 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024057b0
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