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2. On the Nudibranchiate Mollusca of St Andrews; Edwardsia; and the Polyps of Alcyonium digitatum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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The Nudibranchs owe their prominence in British zoology to the late Dr Johnston of Berwick, and to the splendid monograph of Messrs Alder and Hancock.

Inhabitants for the most part of the laminarian and littoral zones, the rocks and rock-pools, by minute and continued search, produced the greater number of those met with at St Andrews, the few others being procured from fishing-boats and debris of storms. Almost all require to be sought for with care, and generally escape superficial notice altogether. Most have been kept for a longer or shorter period in confinement, and some are living even now, though with greatly diminished bodies, and less brilliant tints, the results of insufficient food and other unfavourable circumstances.

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Proceedings 1864-65
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1866

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References

page no 393 note * The Nat. Hist, of many Curious and Uncommon Zoophytes.

page no 393 note † British Zoophytes, p. 177. Plates xxxiv. and xxxiv.

page no 393 note ‡ Zool. Danica. Tab. lxxxi.

page no 393 note § Rare and Remarkable Animals, &c, vol. ii. p. 176. Plate xlvii.