BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., ckc. 3 



list of fishes, some described as new, sent to him by Baron Sir F. 

 von Mueller, and collected in South Australia. Dr. Klunzinger's 

 next publication was of a much more important character. It was 

 a list, with comments and descriptions, of all the Australian Fishes 

 contained in the Mueller Collection in the Museum of Stuttgart, 

 published in the "Sitzb. der K. Akad.Wissensch, 1879." It contains 

 a carefully compiled list of the literature of New Holland Fishes 

 from the earliest period known to the date of the publication, and 

 in addition to the previous list of South Australian Fishes, the 

 author gives notes and descriptions of a large number of fishes 

 from Port Darwin and many parts of Northern Queensland. Dr. 

 Klunzinger's first publication in 1872 clashes somewhat with 

 Count Castelnau's published in the same yeai-, in the first Vol. of 

 the Proceedings of the Zool. and Acclim. Soc. of Victoria. I am 

 not sure which has the priority, but I see that Dr. Klunzinger 

 claims it. Dr. Klunzinger's second publication was read in 1879, 

 and published sometime in 1880, it has therefore priority as 

 regards my Catalogue. 



Dr. Gunther's report on the shore fishes collected during the 

 Challenger Expedition, " Zool. Part VI.," also published in 1880, 

 adds a few to the list of Australian Fishes ; some of them 

 trawled off Twofold Bay and the rest collected by Sir Wyville 

 Thomson, at the Mary River, Queensland. The greater number 

 however, of the new species here recorded, have been already 

 published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South 

 Wales, by Mr. De Vis, M.A., Queensland, E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S., 

 Sydney, and myself. I have also been able to add some species 

 from a most excellent paper or rather a series of papers read by 

 Mr. Robert M. Johnston, F.L.S., before the Royal Society of 

 Tasmania in August 1882, on "The Fishes of Tasmania with a 

 classified Catalogue of the known species." It would be well for 

 the Australian Student of Natural History, if Mr. Johnston's 

 example were followed in all branches of Zoology and Botany, in all 

 our Australian colonies. Without questioning the superiority in 

 Biological Science of the Germans, it still seems unnecessary, as it 

 is degrading, for the simple purpose of the identification of species 



