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the sides either near the summit or base; the latter, at its junc- 

 tion with tlie spore, exhibits a well defined ring of brown cells, 

 encircling an opening leading from the interior of the spore into 

 the hollow part of the dome. The projecting cells may represent 

 the tips of the archegonia. Sections will be required to settle 

 the question. Failing to secure ripe spores of Tmesipteris, old 

 synangia were dissected. Traces of both male and female gameto- 

 phytes were found, proving that the spores often germinate in 

 the capsules. After this discovery, further examinations of the 

 old synangia of Psilotum were made. Many contained self- 

 germinated spores, and afforded a better supply of material for 

 study than by cultivation. 



Mr. Bassett Hull exhibited a mounted specimen of the Flutter- 

 ing Petrel [Cinathisma cyaneoleuca) recently discovered by him 

 near Ulladulla, N.S.W., and described as new ("Emu," Vol. xv., 

 p.205, 1916). 



Mr. North, by the permission of the Curator of the Australian 

 Museum, exhibited a skin of the White Nutmeg, or Torres 

 Strait Pigeon, {Myristicivora spilorrhoa) from Port Denison, 

 Queensland, its hitherto known southern limit. Also a wing 

 of a bird, forwarded to the Curator of the Australian Museum, 

 for identification, by Mr. Ralph C. Blacket, of the Forestry 

 Department, South Grafton, Clarence River, with a letter 

 under date 26th March, 1916, from which the following extract 

 is made: — "I did not myself see the whole bird, but the wing 

 sent belonged to one of four birds seen at Urunga (at the 

 mouth of the Bellingen River) all in one small tree. Two were 

 shot, and one was eaten as a pigeon, but no one seems to have 

 noticed this bird in the district before." Mr. North stated that, 

 so far as he was aware, it was the first record of Myristicivora 

 spilorrhoa G. B. Gray, being obtained in New South Wales. 



Dr. J. B. Cleland exhibited a young plant of Hakea leucoptera, 

 grown in Sydney, from seeds obtained at Overland Coi'ner, Mur- 

 ray River, S.A. The leaves of the adult shrub ai*e terete, 

 pungent-pointed, and slightly hirsute. The cotyledons of the 



