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Furlong, many interesting entomological preparations. Professor "W". 

 Smith, of Queen's College, Cork, sent for exhibition twenty-four slides 

 of Diatomaceae, collected on his recent tour to the Pyrenees, and also from 

 China, the Eed Sea, &c. Dr. Sawyer brought a series of objects for 

 exhibition with polarized light. Messrs. Burchall, Archer, and others, 

 also brought various microscopic subjects ; and, after some hours spent 

 in the investigation and examination of the numerous and beautiful ob- 

 jects exhibited, the meeting was adjourned to the 25th of February. 



WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1857. 



E. Ball, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of last General Meeting having been read, were signed 

 by the Chairman. 



" The Entomologist's Annual for 1855," second edition, by H. T. 

 Stainton, from Lieutenant Crozier, E.E., was acknowledged, and thanks 

 ordered to be given to the donor. 



KINGIA AUSTRALIS. 



Dr. Harvey exhibited a trunk of Kingia Australis (E. Br.) which 

 had been presented to the College Herbarium by C. Moore, Esq., Director 

 of the Botanic Gardens at Sydney, and took occasion to make some re- 

 marks on the distribution and structure of this remarkable type, con- 

 trasting it with Xanthorrhcea, &c. The Kingia is found in Western 

 Australia, from King George's Sound to Cape Eiche, and in a few isolated 

 spots of the Darling Eange, and also on the sands in the plain, not far 

 from the Swan. It generally grows in clumps, and has a striking effect 

 in the landscape, particularly when in full foliage, if it have escaped 

 the annual bush-fires. The trunk in this case is cloaked with the de- 

 flexed persistent brown leaves of previous seasons ; while its head is 

 crowned with the silvery leaves of the current year, and the numerous 

 heads of flowers stand amid the foliage, in a circle, like the rays of a 

 crown. In botanical systems Kingia is either placed at the end of Jun- 

 cacese, or made the type of a small order, called Kingiacese, including 

 Baxteria and Dasypogon — two other genera, natives of Western Australia. 

 The growth of the trunk in Kingia is very slow, and the specimen ex- 

 hibited, which is about ten feet high, may probably be some hundreds 

 of years old. 



After some conversation, A. H. Haliday, Esq., A.M., Y.P., read 

 from Professor "W. Smith, F.L.S., Corresponding Member — 



MEMORANDA, CHIEFLY BOTANICAL, OF AN EXCURSION TO THE PYRENEES IN 

 THE SUMMER OF 1856. PART LT. 

 (Continued from p. 16.) 



"We left Biarritz on the 3rd of July en route for Pau. A delay of a few 

 hours in Bayonne enabled me to take a short ramble in the environs. 

 A public promenade, handsomely planted and well kept, a luxury for 

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