EDITORIAL NOTE. 
This and the previous three volumes have been published 
by the Agricultural Department of the Cape Government, but 
ewing to the present financial depression in the Colony and 
the necessity for curtailing expenditure the further collection 
of material and publishing of results have for a time been 
suspended by the Department. 
The continuation of the work, however, has been rendered 
possible by the assistance of the South African Philosophical 
Society, who have undertaken to print Volume V. of the 
Marine Investigations as Volume XVII. of their Transactions, 
at the same time granting an adequate supply of extra copies 
so that the continuity of the series of the Marine Investigations 
may not be interrupted. 
IDs FE? GILGARIST: 
