RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUM. 
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THE CRINOIDS 
COLLECTED BY THE ENDEAVOUR BETWEEN 
FREMANTLE AND GERALDTON 
(Western Australia). 
By AUSTIN HOBART CLARK. 
PREFACE. 
Mr. Bernard H. Woodward, the Director of the Western 
Australian Museum and Art Gallery at Perth has recently 
honoured me with a request to examine a collection of comatulids 
or unstalked crinoids brought together by the Endeavour while 
working along the coast of Western Australia between Fremantle 
and Geraldton. 
Mr. Wilfrid B. Alexander accompanied the Endeavour at the 
time the collection described herein was made, taking careful 
colour notes on many of the specimens. These he has been kind 
enough to permit me to incorporate herein. 
Within the past two years the Australian crinoid fauna has 
received a considerable amount of attention; in 1911 there was 
published at Sydney a comprehensive monograph on the crinoids 
of Australia, including a historical introduction, a complete 
synonymy and a bibliography ; every Australian record of a crinoid 
or of a supposed crinoid is given. At the same time there was 
published a memoir upon the crinoid fauna of Australia west of 
iqo^E. long., based upon the collection made by the Hamburg 
West Australian Expedition under Drs. W. Michaelsen and 
R. Hartmeyer in 1905. In this memoir every record of a crinoid 
in the region under consideration is included, and the faunas of the 
various coasts of the continent are compared. In 1912 a paper on 
the crinoids preserved in the Naturhistorisches Museum, at 
Hamburg, appeared in which the following new records were 
included ; Comaster belli, from Houtman’s Rocks ; Conianthus samoana 
