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pushed into the interior for plants, while his companions strayed along 

 the beach for sliells. On his return, Hill found the bodies of his 

 comrades, murdered by the aboriginals. 



From October, 1853, to November, 1855, Samuel Stutchburj, 

 then Government Geologist for New South Wales, travelled through 

 extra-tropical Queensland. He apparently collected marine animals 

 where opportunities occurred, but there is little record of his work. 

 Melainpus Stutcliburyi, PfeiflEer, perpetuates his memory. 



Commodore Loring, C.B., when in command of H.M.S. "Iris," 

 dredged off the coast. He obtained Niicula loringi, Adams and 

 Angas; and Limopsis loringi; the date of his work is about 

 1856-7-8. 



About 1858, George French Angas, some time Secretary to the 

 Australian Museum, Sydney, visited Queensland on a collecting and 

 sketching expedition (vide autobiography, '' The Little Journal," 

 London, May, 1884, Vol. I., No. 3, pp. 230-234). Some Queensland 

 records are scattered through his conchological papers. 



. In 1868 an energetic lady, Frau Amalie Dietrich, visited Queens- 

 land in the interests of the Godeffroy Museum in Hamburg. She 

 •collected at Brisbane, Kockhampton, Mackay, Bowen, Holborn Island, 

 and Cape York, and remitted to Europe extensive series of fish, 

 mollusoa, Crustacea, echinodermata, corals, and alcyonaria. 



An expedition to observe the solar eclipse of 1871 was organised 

 by Australian astronomers. Mr. J. Brazier accompanied the party, 

 and collected at Percy, Fitzroy, and No. VI. Claremont Group ; the 

 latter subsequently known as Eclipse Island. He described the col- 

 lections then gathered in the Proc. Zool. Soc, 1874, pp. 668-672, 

 PI. LXXXIIL; and Joui-n. of Conch., II., 1879, pp. 186-199. A new 

 species was dedicated to each astronomer of the party. 



A new ei'a was inaugxu'ated by the visit of the " Challenger," 

 which, during her famous voyage round the world, spent a few days 

 -at Cape York, and passed through Torres Strait. 



On 31st August, 1874, a collecting party was landed on Kaine 

 Island, while the ship proceeded to sound and dredge in the vicinity 

 (Station 185). A couple of hauls were taken in 135 and 155 fathoms 

 respectively. 



For a week following 1st September the " Challenger" anchored 

 under Cape York, while the scientific staff were engaged dredging and 

 shore collecting round the Cape, Somerset, Albany Island, and Albany 

 Pass. On 8th September the ship sailed for Wednesday Island 

 (Station 186) and hauled the dredge in 8 fathoms north of the island. 

 Meanwhile, Mr. J. Murray had spent the day dredging from a boat 

 along Flinders Passage. On 9th September a party was landed on 

 Booby Island, where the lighthouse now stands, while the dredge and 

 trawl were worked in the vicinity (Station 187). The " Challenger" 

 then left Australian waters, and proceeded on her voyage to tho Aru 

 Islands. 



Cape York proved a rich collecting ground, the results were 

 exhaustively worked out, and afford a wealth of information on 

 Queensland zoology. From Stations 185-187, nearly eight hundred 

 marine animals are recorded, comprising the following groups : — Fish, 

 33; Tunicata, 6; Mollusca, 223; Bryozoa, 17; Crustacea, 119; 



