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JOHN D.F. GILCHRIST AND THE EARLY YEARS OF MARINE SCIENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA

A. C. Brown FRSSAf Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, 7701, Rondebosch, South Africa E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 3-16 | Published online: 19 Apr 2010

THE PUBLICATIONS OF J.D.F. GILCHRIST

  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1898 . History of the local names of Cape fish . Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society , 9 : 207 – 213 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1900 . The genus Paraplysia, with description of a new species . Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society , 11 : 121 – 124 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1902a . Catalogue of fishes recorded from South Africa . Marine Investigations in South Africa , 1 : 97 – 179 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1902b . Observations on the temperature and salinity of the sea around the Cape Peninsula . Marine Investigations in South Africa , 1 : 181 – 216 . + 10 Plates + p. 238
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1904a . South African fishes . Marine Investigations in South Africa , 2 : 101 – 113 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1904b . The development of South African fishes, Part I . Marine Investigations in South Africa , 2 : 181 – 202 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1904c . Currents on the South African coast, as indicated by the course of drift bottles . Marine Investigations in South Africa , 2 : 155 – 165 . + 1 Plate
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1904d . Descriptions of new South African fishes . Marine Investigations in South Africa , 2 : 203 – 211 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1904e . Some features of the marine fauna of South Africa . Transactions if the South African Philosophical Society , 15 : 1 – 11 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1905a . “ The South African marine fauna and its environment. ” . In Science in South Africa Edited by: Flint , W. and Gilchrist , J. D.F. 182 – 197 . Cape Town : Maskew Miller .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1905b . Descriptions of new South African fishes . Marine Investigations in South Africa , 3 : 1 – 16 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1905c . The development of South African fishes, Part 2 . Marine Investigations in South Africa , 3 : 131 – 152 . + 1 Plate
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1905d . Additional notes on the development of South African fishes . Report ff the South African Association for the Advancement of Science , 2 : 318 – 321 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1906a . Cases of extensive mortality among marine animals on the South African coast, with suggestions as to their cause or causes . Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , 1905 : 434 – 435 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1906b . Recent discoveries in the South African deep sea . Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , 1905 435
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1908a . Descriptions of fifteen new species of South African fishes, with notes on other species . Marine Investigations in South Africa , 4 : 143 – 171 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1908b . On two new species of Ptychodera (P. proliferus P. natalensis) . Annuls ff the South African Museum , 6 : 207 – 212 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1908c . New forms of the Hemichordata from South Africa . Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society , 18 : 151 – 176 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1911 . South African Zoology 323 Cape Town : Maskew Miller: .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1913a . The Cape crawfish and crawfish industry . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 1 : 1 – 45 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1913b . Review of South African Clupeidae (herrings) and allied families of fishes . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 1 : 46 – 66 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1913c . The proposed introduction of “millions” . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 1 : 67 – 70 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1913d . A free-swimming nauplioid stage in . Palinurus. Journal of the Linnaeun Society (Zoology) , 32 : 225 – 231 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1913e . Description of a new species of sting-ray (Trygon) from South Africa . Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa , 3 : 33 – 34 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1914a . The development of the fishing industry in South Africa . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 2 : 1 – 7 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1914b . An enquiry into fluctuations in fish supply on the South African coast, Part 2 . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 2 : 8 – 35 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1914c . The Cape crawfish and crawfish industry (continued) . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 2 : 36 – 74 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1914d . Destruction of fish and fish spawn by netting in the Berg River and at Knysna . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 2 : 75 – 89 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1914e . Observations on the habits of some South African fishes . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 2 : 90 – 115 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1914f . The snoek and allied fishes in South Africa . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 2 : 116 – 127 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1914g . Description of three new South African fishes . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 2 : 128 – 131 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1915 . Observations on the Cape Cephalodiscus and some of its early stages . Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8) , 16 : 233 – 243 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1916a . Eggs and larvae of Cape fishes . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 3 : 1 – 26 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1916b . An enquiry into the fluctuations in the fish supply on the South African coast (continued) . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 3 : 27 – 38 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1916c . Observations on some South African marine invertebrates . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 3 : 39 – 47 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1916d . The marine biological laboratory at St. James . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 3 : 48 – 55 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1916e . Larval and post-larval stages of Jasus lalandii (Milne Edw.), Ortmann . Journal of the Linnaean Society (Zoology) , 33 : 101 – 125 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1917a . Note on protective resemblance, etc, in post-larval stages of some Cape fishes . Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa , 6 : 205 – 208 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1917b . The development of the Cape . Cephalodiscus. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science , 62 : 233 – 243 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1918a . Crawfish investigations, including experimental hauls, artificial rearing and migratory movements of the Cape crawfish (Jasus lalandii) . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 4 : 1 – 43 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1918b . The Cape lobster and the Cape crawfish or spiny lobster . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 4 : 44 – 53 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1918c . Report on nettings in the Zwartkops River . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 4 : 54 – 72 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1918d . Memorandum on the desirability of continuing the Marine Biological Survey of the South African seas . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 4 : 178 – 182 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1918e . On a species of the crawling medusa Eleutheria, from the Cape of Good Hope (Cnidonema capensis, g. et sp. n.) and the southern Eleutheriae . Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science , 63 : 509 – 529 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1918f . The life-history of Distoma luteum n. sp., with notes on some cercariae and rediae found in S. Africa . Parasitology , 10 : 311 – 319 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1918g . The eggs and spawning habits of the pilot fish (Naucrates ductor) . Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9) , 2 : 114 – 118 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1918h . Note on the eggs and embryos of the South African myxinoid Bdellostoma (Heptatretus) hexatrema Mull . Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science , 63 : 141 – 159 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1919a . Luminosity and its origin in a South African earthworm (Chilota sp.) . Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa , 7 : 203 – 212 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1919b . Reproduction by transverse fission in . Phoronopsis. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science , 63 : 493 – 507 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1920a . Planktothuria diaphana gen. el sp. n . Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science , 64 : 373 – 382 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1920b . A post-puerulus stage of Jasus lalandii (Milne Edw.) Ortmann . Journal of the Linnaean Society (Zoology) , 34 : 189 – 201 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1920c . Note on the shells of Schizodesma spengleri Linn . Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa , 8 : 145 – 147 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1921a . Observations on living fishes brought by H.M.S. “Challenger.” from tropical East Africa to Cape waters . Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa , 10 : 23 – 26 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1921b . The reproduction of deep sea fishes . Annals und Magazine of Natural History (Series 9) , 7 : 173 – 177 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1921c . List of fishes, etc, procured, 1920. Annexure A in . Report of the Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey of the Union of South Africa , 1 : 27 – 81 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1921d . List of stations of S.S. “Pickle”, 1920. Annexure B in . Report of the Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey of the Union of South Africa , 1 : 82 – 92 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1922a . Note on the pectoral fin of the sole, Achirus capensis: its origin and significance . Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa , 10 : 99 – 111 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1922b . Note on the oesophageal teeth of the Stromateidae . Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9) , 9 : 249 – 255 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1922c . List of stations of S.S. “Pickle”, 1921. Annexure B in . Report of the Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey of the Union of South Africa , 2 : 49 – 59 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1922d . Journal of S.S. “Pickle”. Annexure C in . Report of the Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey of the Union of South Africa , 2 : 60 – 84 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1922e . List of fishes, etc, procured, 1921. Annexure A in . Report of the Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey of the Union of South Africa , 2 : 7 – 48 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1922f . Deep-sea fishes procured by the S.S. “Pickle”, Part 1. Special Report 3 in . Report of the Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey of the Union of South Africa , 2 : 40
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1923a . The South African seas . South African Journal of Science , 20 : 1 – 27 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1923b . A new species of Amphioxus from the Bazaruto Islands (Branchiostoma bazarutense) . Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9) , 12 : 62 – 65 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1923b . A form of dimorphism and asexual reproduction in Ptychodera capensis (Hemichordata) . Journal of the Linnaean Society (Zoology) , 35 : 393 – 398 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1924 . A protozoal parasite (Chloromyxum thyrsites sp. n.) of the Cape fish, the “snoek” (Thyrsites atun Euphr.) . Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa , 11 : 263 – 213 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1925a . Xenopleura vivipara, g. et sp. n. (Enteropneusta) . Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science , 69 : 555 – 570 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. 1925b . List of stations of H.M.S.A.S. “Protea”. In Annexure B . in Re/JIVt of the Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey of the Union of South Africa , 4 xliv-xlv
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Hunter , H. 1919 . Reproduction of fishes in Table Bay . Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa , 8 : 1 – 17 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1908a . The Bleniidae of South Africa . Annals of the South African Museum , 6 : 97 – 143 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1908b . Descriptions of fishes from the coast of Natal . Annals of the South African Museum , 6 : 145 – 206 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1909 . Descriptions of fishes from the coast of Natal (Part2) . Annals of the South African Museum , 6 : 213 – 279 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1911a . Descriptions of fishes from the coast of Natal (Pan 3) . Annals of the South African Museum , 11 : 29 – 58 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1911b . The Cape klip-fishes . South African Journal of Science , 7 : 214 – 224 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1911c . Descriptions of three new species of fresh-water fishes from South Africa . Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8) , 7 : 477 – 478 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1913 . The freshwater fishes of South Africa . Annals of the South African Museum , 11 : 321 – 464 . 2
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1914a . Descriptions of fishes from the coast of Natal (Part 4) . Annals of the South African Museum , 13 : 65 – 95 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1914b . Description of three new South African fishes . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 2 : 128 – 131 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1916a . Description of four new South African fishes . Marine Biological Report. Cape Town , 3 : 56 – 61 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1916b . A catalogue of the sea fishes recorded from Natal (Part I) . Annals of the Durban Museum , 1 : 255 – 290 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1917a . The freshwater fishes of South Africa . Annals of the South African Museum , 11 : 465 – 579 . 22 Gilchrist & Thompson 1913 and 1917a are two parts of the same paper published four years apart
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Thompson , W. W. 1917b . A catalogue of sea fishes recorded from Natal (Pan 2) . Annals of the Durban Museum , 1 : 291 – 431 .
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Von Bonde , C. 1922 . Practical Zoology for Medical and Junior students 329 Edinburgh. Livingstone
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Von Bonde , C. 1924a . The Stromateidae (butterfishes) collected by the S.S. “Pickle”. Special Report 4 in . Report of the Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey of the Union of South Africa , 3 : 12
  • Gilchrist , J. D.F. and Von Bonde , C. 1924b . Deep-sea fishes procured by the S.S. “Pickle” (Part 2). Special Report 7 in . Report of the Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey of the Union of South Africa , 3 : 24 + Plates I-IV

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