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No. 1463 Tlie !N"atioii. 33 



The Great Barrier Reef of AustraHa: Its 

 Produfts and Potentialities. By W. Saville 

 Kent. With a chart, 48 mezzotyjie plates, 

 16 chromo plates, and figures in the text. 

 London : W. H. Alien & Co. 1893. 4to, pp. 

 xil, .387. 



iSlNCE the appearance of Dana's magnificent 

 I' Report on the Zoophytes of Wilkes's Explor- 



Siig Expedition ' nothing has been jiublished 

 ontaining so much new information regard- 

 ag polyps as the superb vol>ime before us. 

 t contains a popular account of the fauna of 

 I the Great Barrier Reef by W. Saville Kent, 

 'Commissioner of Fisheries to the Government 

 l\i West Australia. The report is also inte- 

 yrestiug to the naturalist from the detailed ac- 

 j ^ount, accompanied by colored figures and pho- 

 , tographs, of numerous species of corals taken 

 I from life. Unfortunately, the colored sketches 

 I are not as successful as the photographs. The 

 Whromolithographic plates of the fishes, the 

 |ii;a-anemone.s, the holothurians, the alcyona- 

 lians, and echinoderms, as well as of other 

 animals living upon the reef, can hardly be 

 compared for accuracy or for beauty to such 

 illustrations as accompany Dana's ' Zoophytes,' 

 Semper's ' Holothurians of the I'bilijiiiini- 

 Islands,' or some of the colored sketrli. s of tn.- 



