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from minute specimens to species as large as any found in the Mediterranean. Prawn sauce and dried squid are two of the commodities for which Hong Kong is rightly famous throughout China.
A study of the crabs of the Colony, of which nearly two hundred kinds have been described, illustrates the key position of Hong Kong for the study of marine biology. Of the species known 49% have been recorded also in the region extending from India to the South China Seas and 43% also from the China Seas north of Hong Kong; the remaining 8% are so far only known to this district.
The seaweeds of Hong Kong have been studied for nearly a century and nearly a hundred species are known. Of these thirty-two are Sargassums; and it might well be true that this group of seaweeds is better known from Hong Kong than from any other such small area in the world.
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