374 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Harper showed a selected series of liuman bones and relics 

 in illustration of his paper. 



Mr. Stead exhibited a specimen of basalt from Kiama showing 

 the effects of atmospheric erosion. Also examples of silicified 

 wood forming the shingle of a beach near Wollongong. 



Mr. Rainbow exhiliited the collection of Santa Cruz Spiders 

 enumerated or described in his paper. 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited a collection of forage plants and 

 grasses typical of the herbage of New England in March of the 

 present year. 



Mr. T. Steel exhibited two needles made of human bones, from 

 Fiji, where they are used in thatching. 



Mr. Whitelegge, on behalf of the Rev. W. W. Watts, of Ballina, 

 exhibited a collection of Australian Mosses named by Dr. 

 Brotherus, of Helsingfors, and communicated the following : — 



Notes on Home recently described Species of N. S. Wales Mosses. 

 By the Rev. W. W. Watts. 



In a recent return from Dr. V. F. Brotherus, of Helsingfors, 

 who has been kind enough to determine a large number of speci- 

 mens of mosses collected by me on the Northern Rivers, I was 

 pleased to find no less than 21 new species, one of which is 

 also the representative of a new genus. 



In sending this return, the distinguished specialist intimated 

 that he had not yet examined the numerous specimens belonging 

 to the genera Macromitrium and Fissidens, but said that he had 

 no doubt these would contain several new species. 



I have mounted specimens of all the new species, except one, 

 viz., Stereophylliiiii Waitsii, the material of which is small, and 

 the moss itself very minute. It is, however, one of the most 

 interesting of the series, no species of Stereojihyllum having been 

 previously recorded for New South Wales, and only one other 

 species being known in Australia. 



