• DOI:10.1038/141072c0
Corpus ID: 4074772

James Eights: a Pioneer Antarctic Naturalist

@article{1938JamesEA,
  title={James Eights: a Pioneer Antarctic Naturalist},
  author={},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1938},
  volume={141},
  pages={72-72}
}

• Published 1938
• Nature

DR. W. T. CALMAN has done worthy service to the memory of an American naturalist of the early nineteenth century in his presidential address to the Linnean Society (Proc. Linn. Soc., 149, 171; 1937). The accuracy of the descriptions and drawings made by James Eights, his discovery of a ten-legged pycnogon (Decolopoda), in which no one believed until the rediscovery of the species by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition almost seventy years later, his discovery of a new seal and a new… Expand