Introduction

• Main Author: Hayward, P J
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University PressOxford 1995
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; South Shetland Islands; Hooker; Hayward; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198548911.003.0001; https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52530936/isbn-9780198548911-book-part-1.pdf

Abstract Systematic research on the Antarctic Bryozoa has a comparatively short history. The first marine invertebrates to be described from Antarctica were a few molluscs and crustaceans collected from strand line debris on the South Shetland Islands by James Eights, surgeon and naturalist with the U.S. Antarctic Exploring Expedition (Eights 1833). It is probable that Eights encountered bryozoan colonies among the beach debris, but he neither collected nor recorded them (Winston and Hayward 1994). James Clark Ross made the first dredge hauls in Antarctic coastal waters in 1841, in the course of the Erebus and Terror Antarctic expeditions. It is known that he and Joseph Dalton Hooker made extensive collections of Antarctic marine invertebrates. Hooker prepared illustrations of many of the specimens they collected, including some collected while en route to Antarctica, and the surviving drawings, conserved at the Natural History Museum, London, apparently include a number of bryozoans (Davenport and Fogg 1989), but Ross’s collections were not worked up and were eventually destroyed. Antarctic bryozoans were not collected again until Michaelsen’s visit to South Georgia in 1892-1893.