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Polyzoa, Holothurice, Echinoderms, Crustacea, and Mollusca, many 

 species of which though probably not new to science were new to us. 

 Unfortunately, however, most of the treasures we got here were mis- 

 laid and lost, at least upon this occasion, and hitherto I have 

 been speaking of a visit paid to Griffitli's Point and its neighbour- 

 hood aliout two years ago. 



About two months ago, however, I had the opportunity of paying 

 another visit to Griffith's Point, with another fellow tourist who is 

 also an eminent member of the Melbourne Microscopic Society, 

 but although we laid ourselves out expressly in the search for marine 

 objects, and made it our chief business t'^ get over to these same 

 rocks with the help of our old friend the fisherman, we didn't 

 succeed in getting anything like so good a haul as before owing 

 to the tide not being so low, still we managed to scrape together 

 ^ome very fair specimens, and what we did get, we brouglit away with 

 us. Amongst the Mollusca perhaps the most interesting were 

 several very large specimens of Parmopliorus Australis, or Sea- 

 Elephant in miniature as they call it at Griffith's Point, all alive, 

 black and slimy. Several species of Fissurella or key -hole limpet, 

 some Terehratididoe including Terebratulina caput serpentis (or what 

 answers to it in these waters,) and Waldheimia jiavescens. A large 

 ■Saxicava, and several species of Chitons, Ascidians and Salpa. 

 Of the Crustacea we found many of the commoner and familiar 

 forms, but the only specimens which were new to me, although they 

 may be familiar to other naturalists, are a species of crab 

 Avhich I take to belong to the genus Ceryonome and another 

 resembling a Hi/as. Of the Echinodermata, we recognised 

 several common forms of Holuthuricd or sea cucumbers, Sipunculus, 

 as well as ^c/««z'. Some gorgeously colored star-fish of the Goniaster 

 type which however lost their beauty as soon as the moisture was 

 dried out of them.. Then there was a profusion of sponges, 

 Corcdlines and Polyzoa, &c , which I will not attempt to particular- 

 ize. But although we met with comparatively poor success on this 

 last occasion, the few specimens we did get, just serve to show 

 what a splendid haul might be made under the more advantageous 

 ■circumstances of a loAver tide, more time and patience, and better 

 appliances than we took with us. So if anyone should happen to 

 be in search of a really good hunting ground for marine objects 

 •of interest, I have much pleasure in recommending the Gri^th's 

 Point rocks as the place, and the Griffith's Point fisherman 

 as the pioneer. Whilst here this last time, we got our 

 fisherman to take us a sail to Elizabeth Island, about six miles down 

 the bay in search of Trigonias, and found on the shore of the island 

 a great profusion of shells of the single species maj-garitifcra. In 

 fact they were as common there as cockles are on the Brighton 

 Beach. We also found a good many shells of Waldheimia fl^avescens, 



