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CONTElNTS of PART IV. 



PEARL OYSTER REPORT. 



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Preface 



The Great Pearl Fishery of 1905 



SUPPLEMENTARY REPORTS. 



XXIII On the Isopoda. By Revel. T. R. R. Stebbing, F.R.S. (Twelve Plates) . 1 



XXIV. On the Macrura. By Joseph Pearson, B.Sc. (Two Plates) 65 



XXV. On the Antipatharia. By J. Arthur Th >ms< in, M.A., and J. J. Simpson, 



M.A. (One Plate) 93 



XXYI. On the Polyzoa. By Laura R. Thornely (One Plate) .... . 107 



XXVII. On the Medusa. By E. T. Browne, B. A. (Four Plates) 131 



XXVIII. On the Alcyonaria Supplementary. By J. Arthur Thomson, M.A. 



(One Plate) 167 



XXIX. On the Solitary Corals. By G. C. Bourne, D.Sc. (Four Plates) ... 187 



XXX. On the Poi.ych.eta. By Arthur Willey, D.Sc., F.R.S. (Eight Plates) . 243 



With a Note on Polydora armata. By Arnold T. Watson, F.L S. . 325 



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