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EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Flowering specimens of Potato 

 Orchid, Gastrodia sesamoides, from Tourist Track, near Menzies 

 Creek, Dandenong Ranges. 



By Mr. Chas. Barrett. — Caddis-fly cases built of different 

 aquatic plants ; photographs of axolotl, water-bug,. &c., by 

 Mr. H. M. Hale, South Australian Museum. 



By Miss C. C. Currie. — Collection of peat-loving plants from 

 Lardner, Gippsland, including Utricularia dichotoma and U. 

 lateriflora, Drosera hinata, D. pygmcea, the orchids Prasophyllitm 

 intricatiim, P. album, P. australe. Microtis porrifolia, and 

 Burnettia cuneata (in fruit) ; also the ferns Schizcea bifida and 

 Gleichenia circinata. 



By Mr. F. Cudmore. — Ribbon slate (Lower Cambrian) from 

 Tapley Hill quarry, near Adelaide, S.A. ; glacial conglomerate 

 (Lower Cambrian) from Grey Spur, Inman Valley, about nine 

 miles from Victor Harbour. The Grey Spur rocks form a 

 scarp 150 feet high, resting unconformably on Pre-Cambrian 

 rocks on the eastern side of the valley. This valley was 

 subjected to glaciation in Permo-Carboniferous times, when 

 Selwyn's Rock was striated. 



By Mr. J. E. Dixon. — Fifty-two species of coleoptera from 

 Lake Hattah district, N.W. Victoria. 



By Miss M. T. Johnson. — Flowering specimens of Blandfordia 

 flammea, Christmas Bells, and Ceratopetalum gumviiferiim, 

 Christmas Bush, from Sydney, N.S.W. 



By Mr. F. Keep. — Flowering branches of Leptospermum 

 scoparium, variety with weeping habit, and flowering in 

 summer ; also flowers of Eucalyptus pyriformis, the Pear-fruited 

 Gum of Western Australia — both grown at Canterbury. 



By Mr. C. Oke. — Micro-coleoptera collected at Belgravc 

 (wcursion, including three specimens of two species of Chlamy- 

 dopsis — the beetles belonging to this genus inhabit ants' nests 

 and are extremely rare and difficult to secure. 



By Mr. E. E. Pcscott, F.L.S. — Christmas Bells, Blandfordia 

 grandiflora, from Port Stephen, N.S.W. 



By Dr. C. S. Sutton. — Skins of opossums, Trichosurus 

 vulpecula and T. fuliginosus, from Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, 

 in illustration of paper by Messrs. Wcindorfer and Francis. 



By Mr. J. Stickland. — Leaves of Maidenhair Tree (Ginkgo), 

 from Fitzroy Gardens. 



By Mr. L. Thorn. — Marine shells, Cynatium spengleri and 

 Ilaliotis navosa, also seaweeds, from Phillip Island and Flinders ; 

 larv.'E in various stages of the Wood White Butterfly, Delias 

 aganippe, Don, with pupae and perfect insect. 



