The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger Zoology 83 Report on the Genus Spirula

REPORT

of the

SCIENTIFIC RESULTS

of the

VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER
DURING THE YEARS 1873-76

under the command of
Captain GEORGE S. NARES, R.N. F.R.S.

and the late
Captain FRANK TOURLE THOMSON, R.N.

Prepared under the Superintendence of

the late
Sir. C. WYVILLE THOMSON, Knt., F.R.S., &c.
Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh
Director of the Civilian Scientific Staff on board

and now of
JOHN MURRAY, LL.D., Ph. D. &c.
One of the naturalists of the expedition.

ZOOLOGY Part LXXXIII

1895

Report on the specimen of the Genus Spirula collected by H.M.S. Challenger.

by

Rt. Hon. T. H. Huxley, F.R.S., and
Professor Paul Pelseneer,

(The Manuscript was received in January, 1894.)

32 pp. Illustrated 6 plates.

This Report is bound in the H.M.S. Challenger Reports, 1895 Summary Volume.

This electronic edition prepared by Dr. David C. Bossard
from original documents in the library holdings of
Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire.

June, 2004.

A high resolution (800 ppi) world map showing the H.M.S. Challenger Track and Sounding Stations
is available here in three sections.
From Zoology Volume LIII, 1887.

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Left Section at 800 ppi

Middle Section at 800 ppi

Right Section at 800 ppi

EDITORIAL NOTE

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION 1   001 002 003

I. EXTERNAL CONFORMATION 4   004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014
II. NERVOUS SYSTEM 15   015 016 017 018
III. DIGESTIVE SYSTEM 19   019 020 021
IV. CIRCULATORY SYSTEM 22   022 023 024
V. EXCRETORY SYSTEM 25   025
VI. REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM 26   026 027
VII. CLASSIFICATION 28   028
VIII. ETHOLOGY 29   029
IX. PHYLOGENY 30   030 031 032

PLATES.

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