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SLOWLY the reports upon the extensive collections made in Antarctic seas by Sir Douglas Mawson's Expedition of 1911–14 are being completed and published (1, part 3; 2, part 4; 2, part 8. Sydney: Gov. Printer). Among the zoological contributions are Prof. T. Harvey Johnston's “Parasitic Infusoria from Macquarie Island” which include ciliates from a lamellibranch and a suctorian from an Asellid crustacean, both of which appear to be new to science; an account of forty species of Pycnogonida, among which Decolopoda is not represented, by Dr. Isabella Gordon; and a description by Prof. G. E. Nicholls of seven genera and twenty-six species of Gammarid Amphipods new to science, in a collection which includes ninety species representative of sixty genera.
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Reports of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Nature 144, 589 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144589b0
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