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Mr. Ramsay exhibited skins of some very beautiful birds from 

 the Solomon Islands : Ptilopus Lewisii, Ramsay ; Ptilopus Eugenia 

 Gray ; Ptilopus Richardsii, Ramsay ; Ptilopus Johannis, Sclater ; 

 JSfasitema Finschii, Ramsay ; Charmosijna Marcjarettce, Tristram ; 

 Rhipidura tenebrosa, Ramsay. 



The Hon. William Macleay exhibited dried specimens of the 

 two plants described by Baron Mueller, also a large peculiarly- 

 shaped gall of a manna-producing coccus on a gumtree branch, 

 and a rare heteromerous beetle (Zoplierosis GeorgiiJ, both sent 

 by Mr. Palmer. Mr. Macleay also exhibited some samples of a 

 bark said to be used by the natives of New Caledonia and New 

 Hebrides to procure abortion, and a mass of a kind of gutta- 

 percha from a New Caledonian tree. These two exhibits were 

 sent by Mr. E. L. Layard, C.M.Gr., British Consul, Noumea. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited a large number of microscopic sections. 

 A special vote of thanks was accorded that gentleman for his 

 very valuable paper on the uro-genital organs of the kangaroo. 



WEDNESDAY, 25th DECEMBER, 1881, 



The President J. 0. Cox, M.D., F.L.S., &c, in the Chair. 



MEMBERS ELECTED. 



The Rev. John Milne Curran of Dubbo. 



The President announced that the Council had elected Richard 

 C. Rossiter, Esq., of Noumea, New Caledonia, a corresponding 

 member of the Society. 



DONATIONS. 



From Baron Ferd. von Mueller, K.C.M.C. :— Vols. 2, 3, 4, 6, 

 and 7 of his Fragmenta Phytographia) Australiae. Index 

 perfectus ad Caroli Linnrei species plantarum. Organic constitu- 



