| The arctic amphipoda collected by the Willem Barents’ expeditions of 1878 and 1879 were described by Dr. P. P. C. Hoek. The same eminent carcinologist had already carried out the preliminary sorting of the present collection, when, upon appointment to his important post at Helder, he found that the time requisite for describing it was no longer at his command. Under these circumstances at his suggestion Professor Max Weber did me the honour of asking for my services, and the following paper is the result. Of the sixty species here recorded the majority are already well known. They include a very large number of the most striking forms among the Gammaridea. The specific names in the list are due to a score of authors, concerning whom, as writers on... |
