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On some large Aplysiæ taken in Torbay in 1875

Trans. Devon. Assoc. Vol. IX. (1877), 400-403.

by

Arthur Roope Hunt, M.A., F.G.S.

Prepared by Michael Steer

The Paper was presented at the Association’s July 1877, Kingsbridge meeting. For the genealogist, it is a cornucopia of names associated with the earliest research into our county’s unique natural history. An Aplysia is a medium-sized to extremely large sea slug, one of a family or ‘clade’ of  marine gastropod mollusks. It generally lives in the tidal and subtidal zones of tropical waters, mostly in the Indo-Pacific Ocean; but as in this article, is found periodically in the Atlantic Ocean. The Art UK Website provides a splendid portrait of the paper’s author, who was President of Torquay Natural History Society (1879-1881). Among the many published obituaries to Mr Hunt, that which appears on the Cambridge.org website provides the greatest detail about his life and significant accomplishments. His obituary is available  in GENUKI. The Paper, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitization of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.