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ing collection, particularly of invertebrate and ethnological objects, - 
together with much valuable scientific information, and although 
no other collecting expeditions have been organised, some of the 
members of the Museum staff have, at various times, been able to 
collect specimens, many of which are of value to the Museum. 
Fhe Curator, Mr. R. Etheridge, junr., had an opportunity of 
visiting the Wombeyan and Yaralumla Caves and other places in 
the interior, from which he procured much interesting material. 
The most important event of the year was the investigation by 
the staff, of Mr. Hedley’s collection, still going on. The publica- 
tion of their results form Memoir III.,’ of which parts i. and ii. 
have appeared, part iii. is printed, and part iv. well advanced in MS. 
Professor W. A. Haswell of the Sydney University has been 
chiefly engaged during the year in finishing his share of Parker 
and Haswell’s “Zoology” shortly to be published by Macmillan, 
and seeing it through the press. He has, however, been able to 
work out a portion of the material he has had by him for some 
time relating to the development of the Port Jackson shark, and 
has a paper ready for publication giving an account of the stages 
prior to the formation of the mesoderm and notochord. The 
work on zoology already alluded to will be of considerable impor- 
tance to students of the subject, and particularly to Australasian 
students, because of the special local knowledge and experience of 
the authors. In this work, in each of the major divisions or phyla 
of the animal kingdom one or several examples are fully described 
and illustrated. Then follows a brief statement of the general 
characteristics of the phylum, with a sketch of its classification 
and an indication of the systematic position of the example. The 
description of the latter, is in this way, brought into relation with 
what follows—viz., an account of the general organisation, embry- 
ology, ethology, distribution and affinities of the whole group. A 
general account. of the structure and physiology of animals forms 
an introductory chapter, and chapters on the history of zoology, 
1 The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice Group: its Zoology, Botany, Ethnology 
and general structure, based on collections made by Mr. Charles Hedley- 
