BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
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Thursday, 29th November, 1894. 
Sylvester Devenish , M.A. , Vice-President , in the Chair . 
The following Donations were announced : — 
A bottle of Black Pepper grown at the Convict Depot, 
Chaguanas. — C. W. Meaden. 
Smithsonian Deport 1892. — United States National Museum . 
Boletin del Instituto Geografico Argentino Tom xv. 
cuad. 1, 2, 3 & 4. The Institute . 
Botanic Gardens — Bulletin No. 24. — J. H. Hart. 
Deport of Weather Bureau. U. S. 1893. J. H. Halt 
Summary do. do. do. — J • H. Hart. 
Monthly Weather Review— May, June, July, 1894.— J. H 
Hart. 
Bulletin Kolonial Museum to Haarlem— March and July 
1894. — J. H. Hart. 
The following paper was read : — 
OBSERVATIONS UPON THE PHYSICAL CONDITIONS 
AND FAUNA OF THE GULF OF PARI A. 
By R. J. Lechmere Guppy. 
In 1887 I communicated to the Scientific Association of 
Trinidad what was intended to be the first part of a marine in- 
vertebrate Fauna of the Gulf of Paria. That part was confine 
the Molluska. I had for many years previously studied partia y 
the Crustacea and Echinodermata of the Gulf ; but had fade to 
publish anything on these subjects owing partly to the incom- 
plete state of my information and partly to the excessive y 
absorbing and arduous nature of my official duties which left me 
little time or opportunity for natural history studies Still 
managed at intervals to do some work; and among ot ei imgs 
I discovered what then were new and -described species of 
Crustacea, but could not follow up the subject. So mu 
