“A Field Guide to Crustaceans of Australian Waters” (Diana Jones & Gary Morgan) 2002 – mlssa 1052 “A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopuses of Australasia” (Mark Norman & Amanda Reid – mlssa 1051 “1001 Nudibranchs – catalogue of Indo-Pacific sea slugs” (Neville Coleman) 2001 – mlssa 1050 “2002 Sea Shells – catalogue of Indo-Pacific mollusca” (Neville Coleman) 2003 – mlssa 1049 “Seadragons & their friends – A guide to Syngnathidae Fishes in South Australia” (Conservation Council of SA) – mlssa No.1087 “Sharks & Rays of South Eastern Australia” (Janine Baker) – mlssa No.1086 “Marine Fishes Volume 2” (Gilbert Whitley) 1962 – mlssa No.1048

“Marine Fishes Volume 1” (Gilbert Whitley) 1962 – mlssa No.1047 “Sharks and other predatory fish of Australia” (Peter Goadby) 1963 – mlssa No.1046 “Keeping Seahorses” (Robert Straughan) – mlssa No.1005 “Australian Sea Fishes South of 30 degrees” (Neville Coleman) – mlssa No.1019 “The Marine & Freshwater Fishes of South Australia” (Scott, Glover & Southcott) 1980 – mlssa No.1009 “The Marine & Freshwater Fishes of South Australia” (Scott, Glover & Southcott) 1974 – mlssa No.1008

Thorndike Jr., ed., Mysteries of the Deep, 1980.“Seahorses, Pipefishes and their relatives – a comprehensive guide to Syngnathiformes”, revised edition (Rudie Kuiter) 2003 – mlssa 1054

“But however, because the invention did unto me seem ingenious and new, being not impertinent to the present enquiry, therefore I thought it might be worth the mentioning.” “I am not able to judge what other advantages there may be suggested, or whether experiment would fully answer to these notional conjectures,” he concluded. Wilkins was aware of Cornelius Drebbel’s primitive sub of 1620, but he looks much farther ahead, seeming to foresee combat submarines and deep-sea exploration vessels.

It may be of unspeakable benefit from submarine experiments and discoveries.

It may be of a special use for the relief of any place that is besieged by water, to convey unto them invisible supplies: and so likewise for the surprisal of any place that is accessible by water.

It may be of very great advantage against a Navy of enemies, who by this means may be undermined in the water, and blown up.

From Pirates and Robbers which do so infest other voyages from ice and great frosts, which do so much endanger the passages toward the Poles.

‘Tis safe from the uncertainty of Tides, and the violence of Tempests, which do never move the sea above five or six paces deep.

‘Tis private a man may thus go to any coast of the world invisibly, without being discovered or prevented in his journey.

Natural philosopher John Wilkins’ Mathematical Magick of 1648 contains a startling passage in which he foretells the advantages of a long-range submarine, or “ship, wherein men may safely swim underwater”:

The Coast by Joseph J. Thorndike Jr.