338 president's address — section d, 



Coppinger and Prof. W. A. Haswell, lost no opportunities of dredging 

 and sliore collecting. A large series of marine animals were accumu- 

 lated, on which the British Museum produced a special volume. From 

 Queensland -Dr. A. Gunther identified fifty species of fish, which he 

 refrained from cataloguing. Three new fish were described and the 

 Australian Cephalochorda reviewed. A valuable critical account of 

 180 species of Mollusca was contributed by E. A. Smith. Of 

 Echinodermata, 97 species were treated by F. Jeffrey Bell; Crustacea, 

 150, by E. J. Miers; Alcyonaria, 30, by S. 0. Kidley ; and Spongidae, 

 74, bv the same. The Annelides taken on the Queensland coast were 

 discus^sed by Haswell (P.L.S., K.S.W., VII., pp. 250-295, Pis. VI.-XL). 



Icthyology is almost the only branch of marine zoology that has 

 attracted the notice of residents in the State. From 1882 to 1892 

 numerous papers on it appeared in the " Proceedings" of the Linnean 

 Society of N. S. Wales and of the Eoyal Society of Queensland, from 

 the pen of Mr. C. W. De Vis, Curator of the Queensland Museum. 

 Since 1893 he has been succeeded in that study by Mr. J. D. Ogilby. 



Pi-of. A. C. Haddon, who had not then forsaken zoology for the 

 charms of anthropology, visited Torres Strait on a collecting expedi- 

 tion in 1888. During August and September he travelled fx'om the 

 Cockburn Islands and Boydong Cays in the south, via Albany Pass, 

 Cape York, Thursday Island, Hammond Island, Wednesday Island, 

 Jervis Island, Ormans Reef, the Brothers, and Warrior Island, to 

 Saibai, in the north, and to MuiTay Island in the east. The following 

 contributions to marine zoology resulted from his labours : — ■ 



Cephalochoi'da, A. Willev, Quart. Journ. Micros. Sci., XXXV., 



1894, p. 361. 

 Mollusca, Melvill and Standen, Journ. Linn. Soc, Lond. 



XXVII., 1899, pp. 150-206, Pis. X.^XI ; M. F. Woodward 



Proc. Malac. Soc, I., 1894, p. 143; J. Thiele, Zeit. f. Weiss 



ZooL, LXXIL, 1902, p. 249. 

 Cmstacea, W. T. Caiman, Trans. Linn. Soc, VIII., 1900, p. 1 



H. Coutiere, Bull. Mus. d. hist, nat., 1900, p. 411; E. H 



Carpenter, Proc. Ptoy. Dub. Soc, VII., p. 552-8, PI. XXII 

 Hydrometridre, Carpenter, Proc. Rov. Dublin Soc, VII., pp 



142-146, Pis. XII.-XIIL 

 Corals, Haddon, Proc Rov. Dublin Soc, VII., pp. 127-136, PI. 



XL 

 Hydrocorallinse, Hickson, Proc. Rov. Dublin Soc, VII., pp. 496- 



510, PL XVIII.-XXII. 

 Actiniae, Haddon and Shackleton, Sci. Trans. Rov. Soc Dublin, 



IV., 1893, pp. 673-701, PL LXI.-LXIV., Id., VI., 1898, 



pp. 393-498, Pis. XXII.-XXIIL 



During the years 1889-90-91, the late Mr. W. Saville-Kent held 

 office as Commissioner of Fisheries for Queensland. He studied the 

 marine fauna with energy and enthusiasm, but his unconventional 

 spirit did not produce the orderly and methodical work expected from 

 a trained biologist. Various memoirs appeared as Parliamentary 

 Reports, one on the Queensland Fishes, with figures of 65 species; 

 others on the oyster, the pearl-shell, and the beche-de-mer, the latter 

 with figures of five supposed new species. 



