WCP2183

[1]¹

14, St Giles’,

Oxford.

March 3 86

Dear Sir

The illus Although many of the illustrations which I use in my lecture on Pelagic Life exhibit the phenomenon of protective colouration [illeg.] or transparency, the ^only ones which I specially employ in the lecture for demonstrating the peculiar protective colouration of Pelagic animals are as follows

Salpa gonaria chain

Solitary Salpa

Physalia

Velella. two views

Porfita

Janthinia

Glaucus Atlanticus²

Sapphirrlima female

[2]

Bythotrephes longimanus

Leptodora Hyalina³

[illeg.] coerulea

The illustrations were photographed on glass from various monographs in the Royal Society Library and then coloured by hand. As far as I know they could only be reproduced by using the negatives prepared when they were made which I imagine are not likely to have been kept. or if having fresh negatives taken from the monographs. As painted photographs could not be printed from. I can easily give you a list of the monographs in which the figures of the animals [3] in the list which I selected for my purpose occur if that would be of any service to you[.]

Believe me | yours faithfully | H N Moseley⁴ [signature]