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CONTENTS OF PART III. 



PEARL OYSTER REPORT. 



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Preface v 



The Pearl Fishery of 1904 1 



The Present Condition of the Pearl Banks 37 



Further Report on the Parasites of the Pearl Oyster. By A. E. Shipley, 



M.A., F.R.S., and James Hornell, F.L.S. (One Plate) 49 



SUPPLEMENTARY REPORTS. 



XVIII. On the Sponges. By Arthur Dendy, D.Sc. (Sixteen Plates) 57 



XIX. On some AlcyonhDjE. By Edith M. Pratt, D.Sc. (Three Plates) . . . 247 



XX. On the other Alcyonaria. By J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., and 



W. D. Henderson, B.Sc. (Six Plates) 269 



XXL On the Opisthobranchia. By G. P. Farran, B.A. (Six Plates) ... 329 



XXII. On the Ostracoda. By Andrew Scott, A.L.S. (Two Plates) 365 



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