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} }
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…
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