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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30m, 1870. 



The Vice-President, "W. J. Stephens, Esq., M.A., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of last meeting were confirmed. 



The Chairman announced the presence of Dr. Smith as a 

 Visitor. 



Mr. William A. Haswell M.A., B.Sc, was elected a Member. 



DOXATIOXS. 



From the Medical Society of Victoria ; Part IV. of the first 

 volume of the Society's Proceedings. 



Notes by T. S. Ralph Esq., "Ona case of Soft Cancer with 

 Hydatids." 



tapers read. 



On Australian Amthitoda. 



By William A. Haswell, M.A., B.Sc. 



[Plates VII.— XII.]. 



The Edriophthalms of Australia, as of the Southern Hemisphere 



generally, have suffered considerable neglect at the hands of 



naturalists. Milne-Edwards in his " Histoire naturelle des 



Crustaces," (1837), describes but one species of Australian 



Amphipod ; Prof. Dana in his great work on the Crustacea of 



the United States Exploring Expedition describes six species 



from the Australian coast ; among the species described by 



Stimpson in papers published in the Proceedings of the Academy 



of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1855) are two from Australia ; 



finally Mr. C. Spence Bate in his valuable " Catalogue of the 



Amphipoda in the Collection of the British Museum" (1862), 



adds four new species to the list of Australian forms. 



