496 ON A COLLECTION OF ECHINODERMATA FROM AUSTRALIA, 



NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF ECHINODERMATA 

 FROM AUSTRALIA. 



By F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., Sec. R.M.S. 

 Professor of Comparative Anatomy in King's College, London. 



One of the most solid and gratifying " results " of the Great 

 International Fisheries Exhibition held in London in 1883, were 

 the lessons zoologists learnt in the " New South Wales Court." 

 Speaking here only of the department in which I take the greatest 

 interest I have to express my thanks to the authorities in Sydney 

 for sending over to this country one who displayed so generous a 

 disposition as Mr. Ramsay ; to this gentleman's kindness I owe the 

 opportunity of going through an excellent collection of Australian 

 Echinodermata ; but I greatly regret that the rarer species of 

 which he had only single specimens could not be left in my hands 

 a little longer. 



I have thought there might be some slight return on my part if 

 I were to offer to the Linnean Society of New South Wales a 

 systematic list of the species which I was able to determine, as a 

 slight and preliminary contribution to a knowledge of the fauna of 

 Australian Seas, and I only regret that prior engagements compel 

 me to refrain from the discussion here of the kind of problems 

 which had already been suggested to me by a study of the very 

 magnificent collections made by Dr. Coppinger of the H.M.S. 

 Alert. To the report on that collection, now shortly to be pub- 

 lished* I must refer the student for details, descriptions of new 

 species, and bibliographical references 



* As a Catalogue of the British Museum, where the Report on the 

 Echinodermata will occiipy pp. 117-177. 



