148 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Distribution of Marine Crustacea on the Eastern Shores of Port 

 Phillip, Victoria, Australia, with Descriptions of Undescribed 

 Species and Genera," with two plates, by John R. Kinahan, M.B., 

 T.C.D., M.R.D.S., who spent some weeks here in 1855, and has 

 catalogued sixteen species of crabs as occurring along our coast 

 between Williamstown and Picnic Point, which he appears to 

 have carefully searched. None of the commoner species now 

 occurring are omitted from his list, while some of the rarer ones 

 are included. No mention is, however, made by him of Carcinus 

 mcenas, although had it been present in anything like the numbers 

 in which it is now found it could scarcely have been overlooked by 

 so practised an observer, No reference is made to it in 

 Haswell's " Catalogue of the Australian Stalk and Sessile-eyed 

 Crustaceans," 1882, nor in any other work dealing with the 

 Australian Malacostraca of which we are aware. 



It consequently seems more than probable that the species is 

 an introduced one, but it would be interesting to know whether 

 any of the members have noted its occurrence at any other points 

 along our coast. 



The existence of an introduced marine animal such as this 

 appears to us to be especially noteworthy, as, although the 

 terrestrial fauna of Australia has been so largely modified by 

 introduced European genera, the list of introduced marine forms 

 is a very small one ; and it will be of interest to observe whether 

 Carcinus mcenas will, in course of time, replace to any extent 

 the common species of Paragrapsus, Cyclograpsus, and others 

 whose habit of life is similar, and whose place it fills in European 

 littoral fauna. 



You will find on the table a number of specimens taken in 

 Port Phillip, and one male specimen kindly sent to us by Mr. A. 

 Zeitz, of Adelaide, collected by him in the Baltic, for comparison. 



THE BOTANY OF COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE. 



By Professor Morris, Litt. D. 



Illustrations of the Botany of Captain Cook's Voyage 

 Round the World in H.M.S. Endeavour. By the Right 

 Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, K.B., Pres. R.S., and Dr. 

 Daniel Solander, F.R.S., with determinations by John 

 Britten, F.L.S., Senior Assistant, Department of Botany, 

 British Museum. Part I. — Australian Plants. Printed by 

 order of the Trustees of the British Museum. 



The latest book on Australian botany ran a good chance of being 

 the earliest. The history of the handsome work now being pub- 

 lished by order of the trustees of the British Museum is one of 

 the most remarkable amongst books. It is a pity that on the 

 title page Banks is described as " Sir Joseph," and with titles of 



