Contributions to the fauna of the Gulf Stream at great depths. (3d series, 1869). Echinoderms by Alexander Agassiz, Theodore Lyman, and L. F. de Pourtales [AND] General Report by Louis Agassiz.

Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press, 1869. 8vo (23.9 x 15.0 cm). 134 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Important series of monographs preceding later and more extensive reports on the species collected by various dredging operations under the supervision of Agassiz. The present works includes many new species and genera, and comments upon many described previously. Published on behalf of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, in their Bulletin series, numbers 9-13. As follows. 9. "Preliminary report on the echini and star-fishes dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida Reef, by L. F. de Pourtales", prepared by Alexander Agassiz (Agassiz described the new taxa); 10. "Preliminary report on the Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida Reef, by L. F. de Pourtales", prepared by Theodore Lyman, 11. "List of the crinoids obtained on the coasts of Florida and Cuba, by the United States Coast Survey Gul Stream Expeditions, in 1867, 1868, 1869" by L. F. de Pourtales. 12. "List of Holothuridae from deep-sea dredgings of the United States Coastal Survey" by L. F. de Pourtales. And 13. "Report upon the deep-sea dredgings in the Gulf Stream during the third cruise of the U.S. Steamer Bibb, addressed to Professor Benjamin Peirce, superintendent U. S. Coast Survey" by Louis Agassiz. Old label on front wrapper, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Very uncommon.