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Agriculture already receive, in association with tlie technical schools and colleges of the Australian 

 peoples, is a guarantee that sooner or later the foundation of the institution here suggested will 

 be an accomplished fact. 



Australia is nothing if not practical ; and ii convinced, as it has been attempted to show 

 in this volume, that her submerged territories are as replete as is the mainland, with potentialities 

 for the acquirement of wealth and distinction, the provision of such a training school, for the 

 acquisition of the necessary practical marine biological knowledge, which would be afforded 

 by an efficiently-equipped Zoological station, should be speedily forthcoming. 



The concluding illustration is reproduced from a photograph taken by the author in the 

 Albany Pass. It represents a native fishing party, standing for a moment at attention, after a 

 successful haul. The somewhat remarkable distinctness of the reflections is due to the cir- 

 cumstance that the sun was in the background and almost level with the horizon. 





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