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His name occui's as tbe discoverer or tlie recorder of rare and
interesting marine animals in nearly every faunistic text-book and
monograph from 1852 onwards. For more than half-a-century
Dr. Norman has been indefatigable in collecting and in elucidating
the British species of Crustacea and other Invertebrata ; and the
many parts of the ' Museum Normanianum ' form a record of a
vast collection which has e\er been at the service of scientific
workers both at home and abroad. Bate and Westwood, in their
work on ' British Sessile-eyed Crustacea,' make acknowledgments
to the Eev. A. M. Norman, 'who has forwarded to us his entire
collection of Edriophthalmatous Crustacea for examination '—and
that is only one of many similar instances. Haeckel, Bowerbank,
H. B. Brady, G. S. Brady, Hiucks, M'Intosh, Bonnier, Canu,
Alder and Hancock, Haddon, Jeffrey Bell, Delia Valle, P. Mayer,
and Giesbrecht are some of the eminent marine zoologists who
acknowledge in
Medallist.
their publications the help freely given by our
" jS'orman's own scientific writings are numerous, extending
from 1851 to 1906 ; and his wide scope is indicated by the Shetland
Dredging Eeport to the British Association in 1868, ' On the
Crustacea, Tuuicata,Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actiuozoa, Hydrozoa,
and Porifera.' Bowerbank, at that date, naming a new genus of
' sponges Kormania, says : I have named this genus after my friend
the Eev. Alfred Merle Norman, the ardent and accomplished
naturalist, to whom I am indebted for numerous new and valuable
species of British Sponges.' This compliment Norman amply
repaid in 1882 by completing Dr. Bowerbank's unfinished work on
the British Sponges for the Eay Society.
" A genus Kormania was named by Gr. S. Brady among the
Ostracoda in 1866 ; and it may be noted that- imder the dates 1889
and 1896 Brady and Norman are found collaborating in an important
monograph on the Ostracoda, published by the Royal
Dublin Society. That in 1871 Axel Boeck named a genus of
Amphipods Kormania (now Normanion, Bonnier) is only one more
evidence of our Medallist's varied activity. I cannot refer to all
his papers : they include useful faunistic lists from different
parts of the country, records of di-edging expeditions in the North
Sea and elsewhere. In the Zoological Society's ' Transactions ' for
1886 will be found his joint paper with Mr. Stebbmg on the
Crustacea Isopodaof the 'Lightning,' 'Porcupine,' and 'Valorous'
expeditions.
" His definition of the ' British Area in Marine Zoolog)^' issued
in 189U, has been generally accepted. At the same date he published
a valuable ' Eevision of British Mollusca,' worthy of a sometime
President of the Conchological Society. His ' Month on the
Trondhjem Fiord ' in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History'
for 1893 to 1895, followed more recently by his ' Notes on the
Natural History of East Einmark ' in the same Journal for
1902-05, could only have been written by a Eield-Naturalist of