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As with so many other groups the high latitude isopods were not
known until the beginning of the twentieth century. Hodgson (1902)
wrote up the isopods collected by the Southern Cross, and by the
National Antarctic Expedition (1910). Richardson described the
material collected from the f i s t and second French Antarctic expeditions (1906a, 1906b, 1908, 1913) and a collection from the South Sandwich Islands (1911). Stebbing (1914) reported on the collections of the
Fro. 8. Three typical Antarctio isopods. A. &TOl68 glacialia Tattersall, Ross Sea (redrawn
after Tattersall) ; B. alyplonotzrs antarcticua Eights (aczltua form), Ross Sea (redrawn
after Hodgson) ; C. Amtarcturw, polaria (Hodgson), Ross Sea (redrawn after Tattersall).
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Reports on subsequent
expeditions have appeared as follows : German South Polar (VanhlSeffen,
1914), Terra Nova (Tattersall, 1921) the Belgica, well out of chronological order (Monod, 1926), Swedish Antarctic (Nordenstam, 1933),
B.A.N.Z.A.R.E. (Hale, 1946, 1952) and Norwegian Antarctic (Stephenson, 1947). Two long reports by Sheppard described some of the collections made b y the Discovery Investigations, the Serolidae (Sheppard,