286 Cc. HEDLEY. 
molluscan fauna. A search among the more persistent of living 
types may produce some torn pages of its history. One such is 
recognised by the writer in Lucapinella, whose occurrence in 
Australian waters is noted.! But paleontology must be chiefly 
called on to relate the story of the decline and fall of the Antarctic 
marine fauna. 
ICEBERGS IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN. 
By H. C. Russet, B.A., C.M.G., F.R.S., de. 
[With Plate RIt.} 
[Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, September 4, 1895.] 
I HAVE prepared this short paper upon icebergs, not because I 
consider myself an expert on the subject, but because I entirely 
agree with Lieutenant Maury, a great authority, when he said 
that “a sudden accession of icebergs is a danger to navige 
tion.” We have had within the last two years, oF rather 
eighteen months, an extraordinary accession of icebergs betwee? 
the Cape of Good Hope and Australia, and the danger caused 
by innumerable icebergs in these waters is so real that the publi- 
cation of the facts cannot be delayed. 
The literature known to me on the subject of icebergs in relatio 
to navigation is not very extensive, and very little is said about it 
in the ordinary books of reference, and some of that little would 
have been inaccessible to me but for the aid of Captain Bedford, 
Examiner to the Marine Board, who has very kindly lent me & 
book that covers a greater part of the ground, seeing that it has 
discussed every record of icebergs in the southern ocean from the 
time of Captain Cook to 1858, It is called a paper on “ Ieeberg® 
airtel SRE SG 
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