Notes on Irish crustacea : first series, the Brachyura / by William Andrews.

  • Andrews, William, 1802-1880.
Date:
1877
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    NOTES ON IRISH CRUSTACEA,—FIRST SERIES—THE BRACHYURA. BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, Esq., m.r.i.a, [Read May 21st, 1877.] Since the death of my lamented friend and esteemed colleague in science, Dr. John Robert Kinahan, F.L.S., Honorary Secre- tary to the Natural History Society of Dublin, no attempts have been made to investigate, scientifically, the Crustacea of Ire- land. Few possessed his zeal and energy, whether as a practical investigator, or as a sound inquirer into the views of theoretic science; and his loss is to be deplored as that of one who pro- mised, as a faithful expositor, to be one ot our brightest labourers in the field of natural science. Irish authorities, previous to the period of his investigations were numerous, amongst whom may be enumerated Doctors Robert Ball and Drummond, Forbes, WiUiam Thompson, Allman, Patterson, Hyndman, Melville, and that enthusiastic collector, William M'Calla. These have all more or less contributed to the knowledge of this branch of Natural History. - The very valuable observations of Captain Du Kane, and of J. y. Thompson, of Cork, laid the foundations of our insight into the early stages of the metamorphoses of the Crustacea. The persevering zeal of the late William Thompson of Belfast, and the candour with which all his communications were published at a time when, alas, rivalry and jealousy too generall}' existed, cannot but be most pleasingly held in recollection. His papers, contributed to the Annals of Natural History in the volumes for the years 1842 and 1843, fully noticed the Irish Crustacea known at those dates, and these have been collected in the posthumous fourth volume of his work on the Natural History of Ireland, published in 1856. My object here is to give a series of remarks on the Crustacea