The Great Barrier Reef Of Australia Its Products And Potentialities PDF Download

Excerpt from The the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, Its Products and Potentialities: Containing an Account, With Copious Coloured and Photographic Illustrations (the Latter Here Produced for the First Time) Of the Corals and Coral Reefs, Pearl and Pearl-Shell, Beche-De-Mer, Other Fishing Industries, and the Marine Fauna A few months' residence in England, before taking up an official engagement with the Western Australian Government, has proved all too short for the working out of fully-detailed catalogues of the very extensive coral collections made throughout the Barrier district. The collection has been presented to the British (natural History) Museum; and a detailed list of the species of the single genus Madrepora, numbering no fewer than seventy species identified, many of which are described as new, by Mr. George Brook, at present engaged on the compilation of a systematic catalogue of the British Museum collections, is added to this volume, in the form of an appendix, together with a rougher list, complete as to the generic identifications only, of the representatives of the residual mass, for which the author is responsible. Whenever the investigations now in progress are more advanced, and the necessary leisure is afforded him, the author hopes to complete, for contribution to one or more of the scientific societies, fully detailed reports upon the coral fauna of the Australian seas, including that of the Great Barrier and of the Northern and Western Australian districts. For assistance towards the accomplishment of this more comprehensive, and at the same time more purely technical, task, the author is indebted - as in the case of his earlier monograph on the Infusoria - for substantial assistance from the Government Scientific Research Fund, disbursed by the Council of the Royal Society. Acknowledgments are due to Professor F. J. Bell, m.a., of the Zoological Department of the Natural History Museum, for the specific identification of the greater number of the Holothuridae or Beche-de-mer figured and described in this volume, and for his indication to the author of such types among them as are new to science; and a like indebtedness must be owned to Professor A. C. Haddon, m.a., of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, for services associated with the identification of the Torres Strait and Barrier Reef anemones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."