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THE fourth volume of zoological reports on the Discovery collections is full of interest and fine workmanship. It well deserves its beautiful “get-up.” Dr. H. F. Nierstrasz describes the single Solenogaster in the collection— naming it rather awkwardly Proneomema discoyeryi, sp. n., and takes a survey of the family Proneomeniidæ. Prof. G. H. Carpenter gives an account of a remarkable collembolon—Gomphiocephalus hodgsoni, g. et sp. n.— apparently an ancient connecting link between Poduridæ and Entomobryidæ. In contrast to these two cases of sparse material, we find Mr. W. M. Tattersall reporting on more than ten thousand schizopods, mostly referable, however, to one species. He and Mr. Holt have been able to add ten to the previous list tof seven South Polar schizopods, and the present memoir as some interesting results as regards life-history and dtst.ibution. The collection includes no species of schizopod common to both polar regions, but all the genera save one, Antarctomysis, are represented in northern waters. The northern species are quite distinct from their southern allies.
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Various Invertebrates. 1 . Nature 79, 355 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079355a0
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