Art. XX. — Report of the Port Phillip Biological Surveij 

 Committee, 1889. 



Members of Committee :— W. M. Bale, F.R.M.S. ; Rev. A. 

 W. Gresswell, M.A.; A Denrly, M.Sc, F.L.S.; R H. MacGilli- 

 vray, M.R.C.S.; Professor W. Baldwin Spencer, M.A. ; C. A. 

 Topp, M.A., F.L.S. ; J. Bracebridge Wilson, I^T.A. ; A. H. 8. 

 Lucas, M.A, B.Sc, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer. 



Your Committee lias continued its operations during the 

 year. The grant of twenty-five pounds was devoted to the 

 purchase of sj)irit and jars, which were sent to Mr. Wilson 

 to assist him in his work near the Heads. 



At the close of the season, Mr. Wilson forwarded his 

 collections, which are very valuable, to the Biological 

 Laboratory of the University for distribution to the 

 specialists. 



Certain of the specimens thus obtained, as also others 

 collected previously, have been sent to the specialists for 

 determination and report. Others are packed and ready 

 to be sent, and your Committee would ask for a further 

 grant of ten })0unds to defray the expenses of transmission. 



Reports have been received from Professor W. Hatchett 

 Jackson, of Oxford, on the Pycnogonida ; from Dr. S. J. 

 Hickson, on the Alcyonaria and Zoantharia ; and from 

 Mr. Lucas on the Fishes, These will be ready to appear in 

 the ordinary course of publication. In all these groups, new 

 species have been determined and described. 



Mr. Bendy has devoted much time and care to the study, 

 of our sponges, and we may expect from him a very full and 

 valuable account of the taxonomy and anatomy of this 

 difficult group. 



Mr. Wilson has established a small Biological Laboratory 

 and Aquarium at Sorrento, and opportunity will thus be 

 afforded of studying some of the marine foims more 

 satisfactory in the living state. 



A. H. S. LUCAS, 



Hon. Sec. and Treas. 

 December 1889. 



