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* 8.- — PLANORBIS MERIDIONALIS. 



Shell discoid, light horny brown, faintly marked with oblique 

 lines of growth, sharply carinated at the periphery, whorls 3, the 

 last large, more than half the size of the whole shell ; large in 

 front, moderately convex, spire depressed, base convex, depressed 

 in the centre of the whorls, aperture oblicpie, hatchet shaped, 

 peristome thin, acute, margins approximating the right joined to 

 the left by a thin deposit of calius. 



Diam. maj. 1|, min. \\, alt. | line. 



Hab. Ouse River, Tasmania, Mr. Masters. 



Circular Head, ,, Petterd. 



A member exhibited a beautiful specimen of dendritic stone 

 from Rooty Hill, which was left for exhibition with the Society. 



Two volumes of Bentham's " Florn Australiensis" presented to 

 the Society by the Government, were ordered to be suitably 



acknowledged. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited a specimen of native food from the 

 Marshall Islands, composed of pandanus and farina of some plant 

 resembling the Taro. He also exhibited a fungus from the 

 Loyalty Islands, much relished by the missionaries (an Agaricus 

 growing on the roots of trees). Also the fungus from the same 

 place, which is largely imported into China. 



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