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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Steel exhibited specimens of a kind of cigar from Fiji, 

 where it is called seluka, made by wrapping sun-dried raw 

 tobacco loosely in a piece of dried plantain leaf. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited a fresh flower of Dend^-obium undiilatum 

 var. Woodfordianum in illustration of his paper. 



Mr. Forsyth exhibited a collection of twenty of the most 

 interesting Mosses recorded in his paper. 



Mr. R. Greig Smith showed a series of microphotographs of 

 the nodule organism of the Leguminos* to illustrate his paper. 



Mr. Stead exhibited preparations of the Crustacean Piiumno- 

 jjeus serratifrons, and numerous specimens of an undetermined 

 Nematode from the stomachs of Jew-fishes (Scitena antarctica), 

 with the following Note thereon : — 



Upon examining a large number of Jew-fishes recently, I was 

 extremely surprised to find that a great percentage of the 

 stomachs did not contain anything in the shape of food. In 

 many cases, also, this organ was completely everted, and hung 

 out of the mouth like a huge tongue. Of those tlijit contained 

 food, the contents consisted of crustaceans (mostly Squilhij) and 

 fishes, chiefly th(^ former. From most of the foodless stomachs, 

 and from a few of the others, T obtained the Nematodes 

 exhibited. The occurrence of so many empty stomachs would 

 lead one to assume that these fishes \omit their food upon being 

 caught. 



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