138 president's address.^section d. 



Apart from C. F. Hallmaun's investigations on Sponges, this 

 group of animals appears to have been left severely alone, where- 

 as on Mollusca we have numerous valuable contributions by C. 

 Hedley, Gatliff, Prit chard and Gabriel, Dr. J. C. Verco, O. B. 

 Davies, G. H. Hardy and W. L. May. On other groups of 

 invertebrata comparatively little work has been done apart from 

 papers by E. Henry on Cladocera, by Dr. Buchanan and by O. 

 B. Davies on earth-worms, on Choetoc/aster by E. C. Joshua, and 

 E. Creed on Holcthuroidea, by Prof. Chilton on Amphipoda and 

 Isopoda, by E. Ashby on Polyplacophora, and by F. Blochmann 

 on Bi'achiopods. 



The economic side of zoology as represented by animal parasites 

 is covered by Dr. G. Sweet's work on Worm Nodules in Cattle, by 

 Harvey- Johnston and Bancroft's work on Sporozoa, by Dr. J. B. 

 Cleland's papers on Haematozoa and C'occidiosis, and by Prof. 

 S. J. Johnston's work on the Trematodes of Australian birds and 

 of platypus. 



On vertebrata we have A. E. McCulloch's and E. R. Waite's 

 work on Australian fishes; but on anatomy, apart from T. Har- 

 vey-Johnston's paj^er on the Muellerian ducts of Hyla, papers o<n 

 the abnormal anatomy of the frog by E. Archer and A. Osborne", 

 and on the syrinx of the fowl by A. O. Tymms, and on a new 

 Batrachian by D. B. Fty, there seems to be little to record. 



Mention may, however, be made of the valuable publications 

 by Berry, Buchner and Robertson on the skulls of Tasmanian and 

 Australian aborigines, and upon the relation between brain- 

 capacity and intelligence, while Dr. Bivchanan's contribution on 

 the blood of Australian animals has added much to our know- 

 ledge. 



On Zoogeography we have T. G. Sloane's work on the faunal 

 sub-regioais of Australia, and a paper on the seasonal distribution 

 of Rhizopoda by C. D. Gillies. 



Wlork on Palseozoology is very strongly represented by numer- 

 ous papers by F. Chapman, and also by R. Etheridge on fossil 

 Reptilia. and silurian Trilobites, by C F. Laseron on permocar- 

 boniferous Fossils, by J. Mitchell on carboniferous Trilobites, and 

 by Mr. Maplestone on tertiary Polyzoa. 



Special mention may also be made of th© fact that during this 

 period the late Dr. T. S. Hall published his last paper on Vic- 

 torian Graptodites. 



In reviewing this formidable list of papers one is struck by the 

 preponderance of work of a systematic or econoinic character, and 

 by the absence, or almost complete absence, of certain lines of 

 research. There are, for instance, no papers on either heredity or 

 cytology, most important and progressive lines oi work. We may 

 trust that with Prof. Agar, at Melbourne, to represent animal 



