The Fauna of the Magellan Region

Abstract

IN the very interesting review of the “Ergebnisse den Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise, 1892–3,” in NATURE of November 19 (p. 82), the reviewer refers to “an interesting fresh discovery … of numerous brood pouches (ectodermic invaginations of the body wall) in Condylactis georgiana,” an Antarctic actinian. I have not a copy of the report to hand, but, if I remember correctly, Carlgren here gives no figures of these “brood chambers,” but describes them as of similar character to those he figured in a preliminary note on the occurrence of breeding chambers in actinians published in 1893, of specimens taken by the Vega expedition in Arctic seas.