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with a magnificent collection of Australian birds, including many 

 new ones and many species from New Guinea, described and 

 named by this distinguished ornithologist. 



Of the 9,000 species offish on the globe, Australia has, accord- 

 ing to Sir William Macleay's catalo^me, about 1,000. In 1872 

 Count de Castelnau gave a monograph on 1-40 Victorian fishes, 

 with full descriptions from Dr. Gunther's great catalogue of 

 fishes in the British Museum. The Rev. Tenison-Woods has 

 written a nice book on Australian fishes, with photographic 

 plates. J. Douglas Ogilby, A. H. Lucas (who gave a census of 

 Victorian fishes), Johnson (who published a catalogue of 

 Tasmanian fishes), and C. W. De Vis are the workers in this 

 field. Professor Semon, of Jena, investigated the development 

 of Ceratodus, which is acclimatised now around Brisbane by the 

 efforts of our energetic member, Mr. D. O'Connor. 



Of the few Australian Amphibia, we have Fletcher's 

 catalogue for New South Wales, and one by Lucas for Victoria. 



Krefft has named and described the most Australian 

 reptiles. Professor Tate, Mr. Cox, Mr. Brazier, and our old 

 friend, Mr. Hedley, have worked on the molluscs. 



There exist about 80,000 species of beetles on the whole 

 globe. Nearly 8,000 of these have been described from 

 Australia, belonging to 1,644 genera. Masters' catalogue of the 

 described Coleoptera of Austraha is a very good work of reference 

 for the collector. Blackburn, Macleay, Oliff, Sloane, and 

 Marseii have worked out the diffe^'ent families. Walker 

 described the Diptera, Smith the Hymenoptera. 



The butterflies of Australia are nearly all endemic ; still, 

 some of them, like Ihniais Kripjius, have a world-wide 

 distribution. Walker, Meyrick, Miskin, and Dr. Lucas have 

 worked in this field. Mr. R. Illidge gathered a splendid 

 collection, and Dr. A. J. Turner, of Brisbane, described new 

 Micro Lepidoptera from Moreton Bay in the " Transactions of 

 Royal Society of South Australia," 18U8. 



The classical work of Koch and Keyserling, on the 

 Australian Arachnidss, with drawings of all species, is the best 

 existing Spider Fauna on earth. It is written in German, 

 which is considered a drawback for Australian collectors, 



