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Barrier Reef on the other. Having made arrangements 
four weeks beforehand with Mr. C. B. Finlay, boatman of 
Yeppoon, T started to get my camp and collecting gear 
together. The gear is, of course, the main thing. I take 
plenty of empty tins to pack the good stuff in, glass jars 
for specimens such as Nudibranchia. etc., formalin, methy- 
lated spirits, paper and wadding, and a short 18 inch iron 
bar for levering and breaking up coral. A carbide bi- 
cycle lamp is useful for collecting at night, during low 
tide and for nocturnal specimens. 
Good Friday turned out a fine and glorious day. I 
fixed my camp just off the beach above high tide mark, 
well in the wind to keep cool and blow away the sand-flies 
and mosquitoes. After a dip I set out for a walk to Con- 
si dine Beach, and although the tide was coming in I man- 
aged to get some shells: — Tectarius tuberculatus (large 
ones), Siphonaria $p. (unnamed: like deminsis), Acanth- 
ozostera gemmate inches long: Conus sp. (near textilis : 
unnamed), various Chlamys , Venus’s heart urchins, etc.; 
Fusinus boardmani, Placuna lobata, Amusiuni balotti, 
plenty Nerita cost at a , N. striata- , etc; the chameleon Plan- 
axis sulcatus , Turbo mespilus f Drupa marginalba , Bernbi - 
cium melanostoma , and myriads of Ostrea cucullata , our 
commercial rock oyster, and last but not least a new Den- 
t odium. 
After dinner T made for Massey coral shelf for a good 
afternoon’s shelling. Cutting across the neck from the 
settlement at the spit to Massey Bay, T went straight down 
to the beach and out to the coral shelf, heading east to- 
wards Monkey Point collecting as I went. I got one or 
two clam shells ( Tridacna fossa Hdly.) good bait — some 
empty pairs of Cardium rugosum (type), gradually 
swinging round to come back along the water’s edge at low 
or incoming tide. T turned over likely looking stones and 
nigger head coral in search of material. The species found 
were the following: — Clanculus atropntrpureus , Paulonaria 
macula t Staphylaea staphylaea (jet black mantle and pale 
purple shell). Lycvna vitellus , Eroaria erosa, Erronea er- 
rones and caurica , Lycina vanelli; Erosaria meta.vona, a 
rare shell, was found there a few years ago; Melo vars., 
Megalatractus arunus , Solecardia aurantiaca , Area imbri- 
cata, Fusca , etc., Cardita excavata , Spondylus $r>., Ostrea 
cerata in plenty, Cham, a. yndchella , C. reflexa , Perna nuc- 
leus, P. insignomnum , Malleus legvmen , Pinetadn tegulata 
and other species Angaria delphinus, Sanhaliotis varia, 
and out of coral T dug out or broke out the following: — 
T/ithovhaaa teres. L. corruaata , Modiolus cinamomea (sea 
dates), Gastrochaena gigantea and Jouanetia cumingi 
