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Also a portion of the core from the Buiyeroi Bore, from a depth 

 of 886 feet, showing specimens of Taxites medius, Ten Woods, 

 preserved in shale. This taxaceous plant was first found in the 

 Ipswich Formation, Trias-Jura, of Queensland (P.L.S.N.S.W., 

 1888, viii. p. 160, t. 9, f. 3). The leaves are not set at so acute an 

 angle as in the type specimen. This is the first time the species- 

 has been found in New South Wales. Horizon — Clarence Series = 

 Ipswich Formation of Queensland. 



Also specimens of Protospongia from Parish of Alexander,. 

 County Welle^ley, in L ower Silurian slates. 



Mr. Hedley exhibited, by permission of the Curator of the 

 Australian Museum, a specimen of Gancellaria granosa^ Sowerby, 

 taken from the stomach of a schnapper hooked nine miles east of 

 Wollongong, N.S.W., in 30-40 fathoms. An interest attached 

 to this specimen in that though the species is well known in 

 Tasmania, Victoria, and South Australia, it has not apparently 

 baen recorded previously from the coast of N.S.W. Mr. Hedley 

 remarked that an exploration of the deep, cold-water current that 

 lay off the coast would result in adding many other southern forms 

 to our known fauna. A previous instance of such is the record 

 [P.L.S.N.S.W. (2) iv. p. 749] of Crassatella Tcinjicola. Lamk. , 

 a characteristically Tasmanian species trawled in 17 fathoms off 

 Merimbula, N.S.W. If fishermen could be induced to search the 

 stomachs of fishes, a mass of valuable data would soon accumulate. 



Mr. Norman Hardy exhibited specimens of feathered arrows 

 from the island of Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, and read the 

 following note thereon : — It has hitherto been considered that the 

 arrows of the South Sea Islands were invariably unfeathered. 

 This generalisation is shown to be incorrect, as I am now able to 

 exhibit a series of feathered arrows recentl}' collected on the 

 island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides. To find a 

 Melanesian people practising an invention possessed by Europeans 

 liut apparently opposed to the genius of their race, will naturally 

 suggest that this peculiarity was derived from the whites. I am,. 



