Barbados-Antigua expedition; narrative and preliminary report of a zoological expedition from theUniversity of Iowa to the Lesser Antilles under the auspices of the Graduate College (1919) (14792445233)

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Title: Barbados-Antigua expedition; narrative and preliminary report of a zoological expedition from theUniversity of Iowa to the Lesser Antilles under the auspices of the Graduate College

Year: 1919 (1910s)

Authors: Nutting, Charles Cleveland, 1858-1927

Subjects: Barbados-Antigua Expedition, (1918) Natural history Natural history

Publisher: Iowa City, The University

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian

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1. Aiitiguan friends of the Expedition. Rev. Hal Sheiiherd and Mr. A. E. Collens (See pages 219, 227) 2. His Excellency, Acting Governor Best, and his secretary. Captain Nicholson (See page 38) 3. A street in Saint Johns, Antigua (See page 226) BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 181 chelce were mottled with white on a red background, and finelyhaired. The finger was very short and stout, and curvedlike a parrots beak, and the tips of the chelae were crossedw^hen closed like the mandibles of the cross-bill. Another wasvery conspicuously colored, being bright blue and dark red withantennge ringed with red and white. This is the form beforementioned that lurked under the tentacles of an anemone. Ibecame aware of its presence when trying to detach an ane-mone from a stone, when I received several rather sharp thumpson the end of my finger causing a quick withdraw^al of the hand.The sensation w^as most peculiar, somewhat like receiving anunexpected electric shock. Upon further examination and ex-

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