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on 30 October 1885. The curation of the crustacean collection was handed to
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Catalogue of the stalk- and sessile-eyed crustacea of New
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Miers was appointed curator of the crustacean collections at the
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crustaceans, along with four genera and 72 new species in other
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in the world, was described in Edward Miers in 1876.
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348:resignation
329:John Murray
224:Plagusiinae
200:magnum opus
170:crustaceans
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650:References
508:Squillidae
360:Maidenhead
337:honorarium
325:expedition
323:Challenger
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254:by H.M.S.
244:monographs
236:Squillidae
212:Bloomsbury
195:Challenger
123:John Miers
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468:Amphipoda
454:Penaeidae
364:Berkshire
320:from the
303:Patagonia
268:Rodrigues
264:Kerguelen
248:Admiralty
240:Idoteidae
178:arachnids
174:myriapods
90:Biography
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305:and the
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166:insects
135:England
80:decapod
72:species
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45:curator
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276:Petrel
256:Sylvia
143:Oxford
112:Brazil
84:orders
68:genera
57:London
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318:crabs
314:Alert
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292:Gorée
252:Japan
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