CONTENTS OF VOL. IX.. PART 1. 



Supplement to the Descriptive Catalogue of the Fishes of Australia. 



By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c 2 



OnsomeBatrachians from Queensland. (>y Charles W. Dk Vis, M.A. 65 



Occasional Notes on Plants Indigenous in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of Sydney. No. G. By E. Hayiland G7 



Studies of the Elasmobranch Skeleton (Plates 1 and 2). By. William 

 A. Easwell, M.A., B.Sc 



A Monograph of the Australian Sponges. By R. von Lendenfeld, 

 Ph.D. Parti 



The Scyphomedusse of the Southern Hemisphere. Part I. By R. 



von Lendenfeld, Ph.D. 



Notices of new Fishes. By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. 



On the Improvements effected by the Australian Climate, Soil, and 

 Culture on the Merino Sheep. By P. N. TreBKCK, Esq. 



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121 



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173 



Notes and Exhibits 



111), 178 



