Abstract
UNTIL very recently, so little has been ascertained about the Oligochseta of India-and indeed about the Oligochaeta generally-that Dr. Stephenson has been able to quote only 106 memoirs in his complete bibliography of this region of the East. The first of these appeared in the year 1844, but the greatly preponderant mass of the work has been completed in the last fifteen years, during which Dr. Stephenson's own contributions to the subject were published. We are now acquainted-and really very well acquainted with no less than 338 species exclusive of certain “varieties “which some persons might raise to the rank of species; and of these, no less than 123 received their names and adequate description at the hands of Dr. Stephenson. It is thus clear that no better person than Dr. Stephenson could have been selected by Sir. Arthur Shipley to carry out efficiently this valuable contribution to the “Fauna of British India.”
The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.
(Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council.) Oligoch"ta. By Dr. J. Stephenson. Pp. xxiv + 518. (London: Taylor and Francis, 1923.) 30s.
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B., F. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Nature 113, 455 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113455b0
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