KOTES AND EXHIBITS. 1075 



Dr. Ramsay exhibited the I'ai'e startish Echinaster decanus 

 alluded to in Professor Bell's note. The specimen was taken off 

 Geoi'ge's Head, Port Jackson ; it has also been taken under rocks, 

 at low tide, on Shark Reef, He also exhibited four species of 

 Phalangista from the Bellender-Ker Ranges, P. lemuroides, 

 P. Archeri, P. Johnstonei and a probably new species ; and of 

 birds specimens of Scenopceus dentirostris, Ptilorhis Victoria), Ilete- 

 romias cinerij'rous, and Monarclia canescens. 



Dr. Cox exhibited living specimens of Helix Maconelli, Reeve, 

 fi'om the Heads of the Pine River, and the Mary River in 

 Queensland, and //. Falcwiari, Reeve, from Ballina, on the Rich- 

 mond River, with the object of showing how remarkably similar 

 the animals are, the former being a little darker than the latter, 

 and less nodose on the surface. A specimen was also exhibited 

 of a shell quite intermediate between these two species, having 

 the exserted spire of H. Maconelli, with only a slight umbilicus 

 (juite unlike what usually exists in H. Falconari. 



Dr. Cox also exhibited a fine specimen of the rare Trigonia 

 Strangei, A. Adams, which was dredged near the Heads of Port 

 .Jackson by Mr. J. Brazier. This is about only the second living 

 specimen recorded; dead valves are thrown up often in large 

 numbers at Long Reef outside Port Jackson Heads and at 

 Wollongong ; but, odd to say, it has not been dredged in a 

 living state by any of the scientific expeditions which have visited 

 these shores. 



Mr. Whitelegge exhibited examples of the species of Hepaticje 

 described in the paper by Dr. Carrington and Mr. W. H. Pearson. 



Mr. Smithurst exhibited a Crystalline Petrifaction foinned in four 

 years by a drip of surface drainage upon a steam boiler, at Beacons- 

 field, Tasmania. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited a collection of Plants from the country 

 between Wilcannia and Milparinka. Also, seeds of Eremopldla 

 Sturtii, and Clianthus Dampierii, for distribution ; and a specimen 

 of Graphite from the only workable deposit yet met with in N.S.W. 



