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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. Ramsay exhibited the new Bird of Paradise described by 

 him, and a specimen of each sex of Paradisornis Rudolphi, Finsch> 

 which differs from all other species of the family in having rich 

 ultra-marine blue wings and flank plumes ; also examples of the 

 orange-crested bower-bird ( Amhlyorids suhalaris, Sharpe), and of 

 Charmosyna Josephince. The exhibits, which were obtained near 

 the base of the Astrolabe Kange, and were brought from the S. E. 

 coast of New Guinea by Mr. Goldie, have been secured for the 

 Australian Museum. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited photogi'aphs of two species of Polyzoa 

 {Idvionea Milneana, and /. interjuncta) from Green Point, Port 

 Jackson, (8 fathoms), taken by Mr. Arthur W. Waters. 



Mr. A. Sidney Olliff of the Australian Museum, exhibited 

 specimens of Alectoria superba, Brunner von Wattenwyl, a 

 remarkable genus of Orthoptera having a large thoracic crest pro- 

 duced over the base of the elytra ; those exhibited were obtained 

 by Mr. K. H. Bennett, at Mossgiel, in the Western district. The 

 species «v^as originally described by Brunner from examples obtained 

 at Peak Downs. 



Mr. C. S. Wilkinson exhibited for Mr. Lockyer a piece of lime- 

 stome found at Murwillumbah, Tweed River, attached to the side 

 of a live box-tree six feet above the ground. It would appear that 

 the lime had been taken up in some peculiar manner by the tree, 

 and had been thrown off in the form of a wort or excrescence 

 forming a stalactite. Also four 'water-crystals,' one a magnificent 

 specimen an inch in diameter and containing a teaspoonful of fluid, 

 found on the Richmond River ; and finally a collection of agates 

 and chalcedony, together with a carboniferous fossil, found on the 

 mound of an aboriginal's grave at the head of the Tweed River, 

 the blacks in that locality having had a custom of placing peculiar- 

 looking and beautiful stones on the graves of their relatives and 

 friends. 



