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A very valuable addition was made through the presentation 

 by the late Rev. J. Hervier, shortly before his death, of co-types 

 of his Pleurotomice from Lif u, numbering five hundred and fifty -seven 

 specimens, and comprising one hundred and seventy-five species. 

 An equally interesting general series of shells from New Caledonia 

 was given by the Rev. Pere Lambert. Mr. Hedley, adds : — 

 " Other presentations of importance were — Marine shells from 

 Victoria, by Mr. J. H. GatlifF; similar molluscs from Tasmania, 

 by the Rev. H. D. Atkinson ; land shells from the New Hebribes, 

 obtained during the cruise of H.M.S. ' Ringarooma,' by Mr. 

 J. J. Walker, r.n., etc." 



Three thousand seven hundred and eight-four specimens were 

 donated; sixty-one received in exchange; and eight hundred and 

 sixty collected. 



Invertebrata (other than Inseota, etc., and Mollusca.) 

 (Mr. T. Whiteleqge, Assistant-in-Charge.) 



"The principal portion of my time," reports Mr.Whitelegge, "dur- 

 ing the past year, was occupied with the Crustacea of the ' Thetis' 

 Expedition, and in working out a large collection of Sponges re- 

 ceived from the Commissioners of Fisheries, consisting of over six 

 hundred specimens, and representing about seventy species. Parti, 

 of the 'Thetis' Crustacea (Brachyura, Anomura, Macrura, Stomato- 

 poda, etc.),^" was completed early in the year, and Part II. (Isopoda), 

 was almost ready for publication at its close. A named set of 

 Caprellidfe was returned by Prof. P. Meyer, of Naples, which 

 formed part of a collection forwarded to him by order of the 

 Trustees, in December, 1899. During the year, printed labels 

 were attached to the exhibited Foraminifera models, Echinoderms, 

 and the remainder of the Sponges." 



Mr. Whitelegge further states that "the most valuable donation 

 was a series of microscopic slides of Sponge sections, from Prof. A. 

 Dendy, D.Sc.of Canterbury, N.Z., representing seventy-four species. 

 Many of the sections are co-types, and were used by him in the 

 preparation of his 'Catalogue of Non-Calcareous Sponges.' "^^ 



In addition to the microscopic slides already mentioned, Prof. 

 Dendy was so kind as to forward for Mr. VVhitelegge's assistance 

 two hundred and twenty-four Sponge cuttings (for microscopic 

 purposes), of types and species described by the late Mr. H. J 

 Carter, the specimens themselves being now in the Natural History 

 Branch of the British Museum. From these two hundred and 

 thirty sections were prepared by Mr. Whitelegge, and proved of 

 the greatest service to him. 



10 Whitelegge — Aust. Mus. Mem., iv., 1900, Scientific Results of the 

 Trawling Expedition of H.M.C.S. ' Thetis,' etc. ; Crustacea, Parts i. and 

 ii., pp. 133- 199, pis. xxxii. - xxxv, 



11 Dendy— Proc. Roy. See. Vict., (n.s.) vii., 1895. 



