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" Supplement to descriptive Catalogue of the Fishes of Aus- 

 tralia." By the Hon. William Macleay, F.L.S. From the Author. 



" Victorian Naturalist." Vol. I., No. 3., March, 1884. From 

 the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. 



A very large and valuable collection of the publications of 

 Belgian Scientific Societies. From M. Th. Lefevre, Secretary of the 

 Royal Malacological Society of Belgium. 



"Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." No. 161, March, 1884. 

 From the Editor. 



" Me moires de la Societe de Fhysique et d'Histoire Naturelle 

 de Geneve." Tomes XXIII. to XXVII. and XXVIII., Part I. 

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" Entomologisk Tidschrift pa foranstaltande af Entomologiska 

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PAPERS READ. 



ON THE PRESERVATION OF TENDER MARINE 

 ANIMALS. 



By R. Von Lendenpeld, Ph.D. 



I shall endeavour here to give a few hints on this subject which 

 may be of service to those of our members, who have no access to 

 the Zoological Journals in which such methods of preserving are 

 described. I do this in consequence of a wish expressed at the 

 March meeting at the Linnean Society of N.S.W. 



Medusa?, Actiniae, Alcyonidae, and particularly also Syphono- 

 phora and Cnetophora are so tender, and contain in parts of their 

 bodies such a great percentage of water (in Aurelia as much as 

 97% !) that it is difficult to preserve them without their shrinking. 



