8 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST, 
spilotes, Lacep.; the native cat, Dasyurus viverrinus, 
Shaw; the marsupial ‘‘squirrel,’’? Pefaurus sciureus, Shaw; 
and the Northern carpet-snake, Python amethystina, Schn. 
“The Entozoa of Monotremata and Australian Marsupalia’’ 
(No. 1) is the title of Mr. Johnston’s second paper, and this 
introduces the reader to additional pioneer work in Aus- 
tralian parasitology. Of these papers, the former is illus- 
trated by two plates. Again, the same author, in collabora- 
tion with Dr. J. Burton Cleland, deals with another branch 
of our parasitic fauna under the title of ‘‘Notes on Some 
Parasitic Protozoa,’’ and this is also illustrated by a plate. 
Mr. Hedley, I°.L.S., contributes a paper on ‘‘Mollusca from 
the Hope Islands,”’ and this is illustrated by four admirable 
plates by that accomplished artist, Miss Winifred West. 
Mr. E. J. Goddard, B.A., B.Sc., continues his papers on 
Australian Hivudinea (Part I1I., pls. xlv.-xlvi.), and com- 
mences another series on ‘‘Australian Freshwater Polyzoa’”’ 
(pl. xlvii.). The issue under notice introduces a new Aus- 
tralian worker in the cause of entomological science, and, 
judging by the quality of the work produced, one who is 
destined to be a tower of strength to students in Coleoptera. 
The paper referred to is a ‘‘Revision of the Amycteride,”’ 
by E. W. Ferguson, M.B., Ch.M. No. 15 of Messrs. J. H. 
Maiden and E. Betche’s ‘‘Notes from the Botanic Gardens’’ 
concludes this number. In the Proceedings of the Royal 
Society of N.S.W. for 1909, Mr. T. Harvey Johnston has, 
in conjunction with Dr. Cleland, continued his studies on 
Australian parasitology by four papers on Cestodes and 
blood parasites from birds and reptiles. Altogether, as 
denoting scientific literary activity in 1909, forty-two papers 
on zoology were published in the course of the year in Sydney 
alone. 
NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
“A Busu CaLenpar.’’—This is the title of a dainty little 
beok that made its appearance just prior to Christmas. And 
no time could have been more happily chosen, for it is just 
the sort of little book that one looks forward to at Christmas 
time, especially when one has friends at a*distance to whom 
he or she desires to send a permanent reminder of friendship 
and goodwill. Miss Amy E. Mack (Mrs. Launcelot Harri- 
son) had many admirers of her literary skill and pleasant 
manner of treating things prior to the publication of “A 
