Marine Zoology at the Cape 1

Abstract

THE third volume of reports on the Cape marine fauna contains ten papers published between 1904 and 1905. Of these memoirs, two dealing with eighteen new species of fish and the development of South African fishes, are by Dr Gilchrist, to whose enterprise and ability these sustained and extended investigation of the resources of the Cape seas are largely due. In this work he has been ably seconded by European Colleagues. Prof. McIntosh contributes two papers on the polychæt annelids; Prof. Hickson a second report on the Alcyonaria; Prof. Jeffrey Bell three contributions, dealing respectively with the echinoid, asteroid, and ophiuroid echinoderms; Mr. Stanley Gardiner publishes a careful study of the turbinolid corals; and Prof. Cleve submits a first instalment of a study of the South African marine plankton.