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Abstract

MR. W. SAVILLE-KENT, at present engaged as Commissioner of Fisheries to the Government of Western Australia, has shipped to London a large collection of the stony corals, Madreporaria, peculiar to the Western Australian coast line. These specimens, added to the extensive series indigenous to the northern and eastern districts of Australia recently contributed by him to the National Natural History Museum, and which were amassed in association with the explorations that formed the basis of his recently published work on the Australian Great Barrier Reef, will constitute the most complete collection of Australasian Madreporaria that has yet been brought together. This latest Western Australian consignment includes several specimens of abnormally large dimensions that should make an interesting display in the Natural History galleries. Mr. Saville-Kent anticipates completing his Australian engagements, and returning permanently to England about twelve months from the present date.