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MESSRS. DUNCAN AND SLADEN will receive the thanks of zoologists for the publication of this memoir, which will owe its importance as much to the care with which it has evidently been prepared, as to the interest of the group with which it deals, and the value that it has in being a monograph of a definite zoological region. The time would, indeed, seem to have come when no further question is possible as to the existence of a characteristic circumpolar fauna; nearly ten years ago Prof. Alex. Agassiz directed attention to the wide distribution of that common form, which has unfortunately so very long a name, the regular Echinid—Strongylocentrotus drobachiensis, in his “Revision of the Echini,” and the researches of Mr. Seebohm have led him to a similar conclusion as to the circumpolar distribution of Birds. Further evidence is given by the present authors, who sum up the matter thus:—
A Memoir on the Echinodermata of the Arctic Sea to the West of Greenland.
By P. Martin Duncan W. Percy Sladen. Pp. 82, Six Plates. (London: Van Voorst, 1881.)
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B., F. A Memoir on the Echinodermata of the Arctic Sea to the West of Greenland . Nature 24, 97 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024097a0
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