BY THE REV. DR. "WOOLLS, D.D., F.L.S. 773 



reconciling it with the notes of collectors. "Within the last few 

 years, the study of native plants has become more popular than 

 it was, and it is to be hoped, that, as the subject is more generally 

 pursued, many of Eobert Brown's names, which are singularly 

 appropriate, will come into use amongst educated people. That 

 eminent Botanist was the first to give " a local habitation and a 

 name " to the principal genera about Port Jackson, and whilst 

 some names bring to the mind at once some peculiar character in 

 the structure of plants there are others which are associated with 

 naval, military, or scientific heroes ever to be remembered in the 

 history of Australia. In conclusion I would remark, that, whilst 

 I feel but little sympathy with such terms as those stigmatized 

 by Lindley I feel still less with those which ignorance or folly 

 has imposed. The one, indeed, may be modified and improved, 

 so as to convey some definite meaning, but the other should be 

 gradually discontinued as leading to misconception. 



Australian Octopodid/E. 

 By James C. Cox, M.D., F.L.S., &o. 



In presenting for your consideration the following remarks, 

 accompanied by a carefully compiled list of the species, and 

 ample references to authors, of all the known animals which 

 inhabit our coasts, of the Family Octopoclidce, I am actuated by 

 the desire of directing, through the medium of our Society's 

 Transactions, the greater attention of our resident naturalists to 

 the study of this particular, although limited, branch of the 

 naked cephalopods. 



The Octopods are unquestionably the most ^highly organized 

 and the most remarkable of all the animals which constitute the 

 great molluscan group : but from the many difficulties attendant 

 on their capture, and after death in their preservation, they have 



