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(4) Port Phillip Biological Committee. 



Thei'e is little to report with regard to the woi'k of the Port 

 Phillip Biological Committee during the past year. 



Dr. Dendy has continued his reseai'ches with regard to the 

 iSponges, and has issued his second instalment of the catalogue of 

 non-calcareous forms. 



Mr. Sykes has apparently completed his investigations on the 

 Polyplacophora, the results of which he is communicating to the 

 Malacological Society, London. It is a matter of much regret 

 that owing to lack of funds, these results cannot be j^ublished by 

 the Royal Society of Victoria. 



Mr. Pritchard is still at work upon the Gastropoda and 

 Lamellibranchiata. It is hoped that during the course of the 

 year reports will be received from naturalists who have been for 

 some time at work upon various parts of the collection. 



The Committee desires to place on record its sense of the great 

 loss sustained by the society in the death of Mr. Bracebridge 

 Wilson, M.A., F.L.S. It is to the long continued labours of Mr. 

 Wilson that the society owes almost entirely the large collection 

 of Port Phillip Biological specimens which it has been enabled to 

 distribute to various naturalists for investigation. Mr. Wilson's 

 labours have resulted already in the acquisition of much know- 

 ledge with regard to the fauna and flora of Port Phillip Bay, his 

 knowledge of and personal acquaintance with which were 

 unrivalled. The whole of Mr. Wilson's vacations were spent on 

 board his yacht dredging in tlie bay and along the coast, and all 

 his results were placed vmreservedly at the disposal of the 

 Society, his only anxiety being that they might lead on to the 

 full determination of the fauna and flora of the Port Phillip Bay 

 and the Victorian coast. 



