the condition and prospects of the fisheries of the island. Mr. 

 Cunningham's Report on the results of the investigation from 

 the economic point of view had been presented to the Colonial 

 Office. The Invertebrates collected had been examined and iden- 

 tified by specialists of the Natural History Museum — namely, 

 Dr. Caiman, Mr. Edgar Smith, Prof. Jeffrey Bell, and Mr. Kirk- 

 patrick, the last-named having described a new species of Sponge 

 and a new Hydroid. The Fishes had been worked out by Mr. 

 Cunningham himself , and included two new species, one belonging 

 to the Stromateidte and one to the Cyphosida?. The three kinds 

 of Albacore occurring at St. Helena were shown to be identical 

 with the three species diagnosed at Madeira by the Rev. R. T. 

 Lowe in 1839, namely, Thyvnus alalonga, T. albacora, and 

 T. obesus, species which had been confused or rejected by recent 

 ichthyologists ; the synonymy and distribution of these were for 

 the first time correctly elucidated. 



The paper was illustrated by lantern-slides from photographs 

 of the larger fishes and of the scenery of St. Helena. 



Dr. H. G. Plimmer, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Pathologist to the Society, 

 reported on the Deaths which occurred in the Society's Gardens 

 during 1909, and illustrated his remarks with a series of lantern- 

 slides. 



Dr. W. T. Calman, F.Z.S., presented the second and concluding 

 part of a Report on New or Rare Crustacea of the Order 

 Cumacea, from the collection of the Copenhagen Museum. This 

 portion of the Report dealt with the families Nannastacid^e and 

 Diastylidje, and 27 species were described, all of which were 

 regarded as new, and 3 new genera were established. This 

 communication will be published in the ' Transactions.' 



The Secretary communicated a paper by Prof .W. M. Smallwood, 

 of Syracuse University, New York, U.S.A., on the Hydroids 

 and Nuclibranchs of Bermuda. 



