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PROF. W. J. DAKIN has been working for nine years at the study of plankton off Sydney Harbour. The difficulties were many, but a great deal has been accomplished which acquires a deeper significance when one realizes that it is the preliminary to further fisheries researches in the future. A small yacht only was available, but with this, fortnightly samples of plankton with accompanying hydrographic data (the last only for the first three years) were taken almost continuously. The results, which include much original work not published elsewhere, are now available (“The Plankton of the Australian Coastal Waters off New South Wales. Part 1.” Publications of the University of Sydney. Department of Zoology. Monograph No. 1. By William J. Dakin and Alan N. Colefax. 1940). There is, however, much more in it, for it is a general guide to Australian plankton indispensable to all who study the subject in these waters, the introductions give a good survey of each group, and almost every organism is described and, in most cases, figured. Lists of relevant literature are given at the end of each section and certain specialists have helped in identifications. Mr. Takari Tokioka's contribution on the Chsetognatha with its beautiful figures is noteworthy. Mr. Alan Colefax is responsible for the large and detailed section on the Copepoda and also for the chemical analyses.
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Coastal Plankton of New South Wales. Nature 147, 705–706 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147705c0
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