Paper, 'Preliminary notice of a new form of excretory organs in an oligochaetous annelid' by Frank Evers Beddard Beddard writes: 'So far as our knowledge of the Oligochseta goes at present, the excretory system appears to consist either of one or more pairs of separate nephridia in each segment, or of a diffuse, irregularly arranged system of tubules with numerous external pores upon each segment, and often with numerous coelomic funnels in each segment; there may or may not be a connexion between the tubes of successive segments.' Annotations in pencil and ink. Subject: Zoology / Anatomy Received 19 February 1891. Read 5 March 1891. Communicated by Edwin Ray Lankester. A version of this paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Preliminary notice of a new form of excretory organs in an oligochaetous annelid'. 1891