‎Gardiner, J.S. (ed.)‎
‎The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Volumes II-V.‎

‎1909-1914 vii, 473, vi, 485, vii, 496, vi, 517 p., 25 (8 col., 3 folded), 32 (1 col. 1 folded), 29 (1 col.), 24 pls, num. figs, 4to, cloth. Library stamps. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. A well bound set of the last four volumes (of 5, volume I is missing) of these important expedition reports.Includes: Volume II: I. Punnett & Cooper, On some Nemerteans. II. Bell, Report on the Echinodermata (other than Holothurians). III. Gruvel, Etude des Cirripèdes. IV. Distant, ‘’Sealark’’ Rhynchota. V. Walker, Amphipoda Hyperiidea. VI. Sykes, The Land and Freshwater Mollusca. VII. Melvill, Report on the Marine Mollusca. VIII. Thomson et al., Alcyonarians. IX. Gibson, The Cephalachorda. X. Borradaile, Penaeidae, Stenopidea, and Reptantia. XI. Fletcher, Lepidoptera, exclusive of the Tortricida and Tineidae. XII Potts, Polychaeta. XIII. Murray, On the Depth and Marine Deposits of the Indian Ocean. XIV. Fletcher, The Orneodidae and Pterophoridae. XV. Borradaile, On the Land and Amphibious Decapoda of Aldabra. XVI. Eliot, Nudibranchs. XVII. Dall, Report on the Brachiopoda.Volume III: I. Gardiner et al., Description of the Expedition (concluded). II. Scott, Eight Months’ Entomological Collecting in the Sechelles Islands. III. Ulmer, Trichoptera. IV. Enderlein, Embiidina and Neuroptera. V. Enderlein, Diptera, Mycetophilidae. VI. Stebbing, Isopoda. VII. Burr, Dermaptera. VIII. Holmgren, Isoptera. IX. Stein, Diptera, Anthomyidae. X. Tesch, Pteropoda and Heteropoda. XI. Rathbun, Marine Brachyura. XII. Meyrick, Trtricina and Tineina. XIII. Kieffer, Hymenoptera, Cynipidae. XIV. Kieffer, Diptera, Cecidomyiidae. XV. Kieffer, Diptera, Chironomidae. XVI. Turner, Fossorial Hymenoptera. XVII. Boulenger, List of Batrachians and Reptiles. XVIII. Hirst, The Aranea, Opiliones and Pseudoscorpiones. XIX. Fryer, The Structure and Formation of Aldabra and Neighbouring Islands. XX. Hickson, On Polytrema and some Allied Genera (Sedentary Foraminifera). Volumes IV & V contain 10 papers on Diptera, 10 papers on Coleoptera, 5 papers on Hymenoptera, 2 papers on Orthopera, 2 papers on Arachnida, 4 papers on Crustacea, and single papers on: Ephemerida, Odonata, Rhynchota, Neuroptera, Polychaeta, Polyzoa, Fish, Actiniaria, Sponges, Land Leeches, Foraminifera, Ferns, and Algae. In all the four volumes contain 84 papers (with 110 plates) on the fauna and flora of the Seychelles.‎

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