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Proceedings of the Linnœan Society of New South Wales, vol. iv. Part 3, 1879, contains:—W. A. Haswell, on the Australian amphipoda, with thirteen plates, describes many new species and several new genera; of these latter, one, Amaryllis, is unfortunately already familiar to the botanist; another, Glycera, has been in use since the days of Sayigny as a generic name in the animal kingdom; on the phyllosoma stage of Ibacus peronii; notes on the anatomy of birds; on the cylostomatous polyzoa of Port Jackson.—E. P. Ramsay, notes on birds from the Solomon Islands.—Prof. F. W. Hutton, on the genus Phalacrocorax.—W. Macleay, on the Clupeidæ of Australia.— Dr. James Cox, on the genus Cypræa.—Rev. J. Tenison Woods, on some new Australian echini (plates 13 and 14), describes Hemiaster apicatus (sp. n. and Phyllacanthus parvispina (sp. n.), and gives a revised list of all Australian echini (fifty-eight in number); on Heterosammia michelinii (plate 15); on a new species of Disticophora; on some fossils from Fiji; on some post-tertiary fossils from New Caledonia.—R. B. Read, on Doris arbutus, Angus (plate 17).
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Scientific Serials . Nature 22, 234 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022234a0
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