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ONE result of an expedition to Torres Strait organised by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1913 has been that the depart ment of marine biology of that institution has published an admirable memoir on the Echino derm fauna by Dr. H. Lyman Clark. The 240 species there found are critically examined, as well as fifty species from adjacent regions. Notes on the habitat and habits are furnished in many cases. Forty-one new species were discovered, and some are here described for the first time; many of these and others are illustrated by photographs, and a number are represented in their natural colours from drawings by Mr. E. M. Grosse, of Sydney, on nineteen exquisite plates lithographed by Mr. H. S. Burton at the Government Printing Office of New South Wales. The technical and artistic skill here displayed do justice to the ex treme beauty of the objects.
Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Vol. x., The Echinoderm Fauna of Torres Strait.
By Hubert Lyman Clark. (Publication No. 214.) Pp. viii + 223 + 38 plates. (Washington, D.C.: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1921.) 15.50 dollars.
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B., F. Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Vol x, The Echinoderm Fauna of Torres Strait . Nature 107, 712 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107712a0
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