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The Queensland Naturalist. 
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 
VoL. I. 
The following donations to the Library ” have been 
received since the last issue : — From Field Naturalists’ 
■Club of Victoria — The Victorian Naturalist, for August, 
September and, October. From New South Wales Natura- 
lists’ Club — The Australian Naturalist, for July. From 
Geelong Field Naturalists’ Club— Geelong Naturalist, 
for September. From Royal Society of Queensland — Set 
of Proceedings (one volume incomplete). From British 
Museum — Handbook for Collectors, and fourteen volumes 
of Guide Books. From C. W. Holland — Introduction to 
Conchology, by J. W. Johnston ; Geography of Mammals, 
by W. L. and P. L. Sclater ; Report of Twelfth Meeting of 
Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. 
From the Ed,itor — Knowledge, for September. From 
Queensland Geological Survey — Report on Coal Measures 
of South-East Moreton, by E. 0. Marks. From Amateur 
Fishermen’sj^Association — ^Annual Report for 1909-1910. 
ORNITHOPIERA. 
Richmondia, Cassandra, Pronomus, Hecuba, Papilio, 
Foesa, etc., are always wanted in quantities and very best 
quality, in papers, by Emil Werner, Rixdorf, Berlin, 
Weserstr., 208, Germany. 
ANTARTIC ROTIFERA. 
The Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society for 
August, Part 4, p. 461, in referring to the Report of the 
British Antartic Expedition, 1907-9 (1910, pj). 41-65), 
states ; — ‘‘ Amongst the results of Sir E. ^H. Shackleton’s 
recent Antarctic expedition, not the least interesting is 
the discovery of an extensive micro-fauna, mostly Rotifera 
and Tardigrada, living in the pools and small lakes which 
exist on Ross Island during the short summer season, but 
which are frozen solid for about ten months in thelyear. 
James Murray records sixteen species of Rotifera collected 
by himself at Cape Royds, of which the following five 
species, all Bdelloids, are described as new : Philodina, 
gregaria, P. antarctica, P. alata, Callidina angularis, Adenita 
grandis. The author enlarges on the severe conditions 
under which these Rotifera manage to exist, and it appears 
that their lives are actually prolonged by being frozen 
solid for ten months or more, in order to resume an active 
and merry life during the short succeeding summer. ‘ They 
do not ask for much in the way of luxury,’ the author ob- 
