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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. Cleland exhibited the first four parts (VoL i.) of " Epi- 

 graph ie Medical e : Corpus I nscriptionum ad JVlediciiiam Hiolo- 

 giamque Spectantium," publie par Professeur Raphael Blanchard 

 (Paris, 1909-15).- Also specimens of Anestellorhina augu7' (Cct/li- 

 phora ocea'iiice), one of the Australian Blowflies troublesome to 

 sheep, bred from an Agaric {Pletirotus sp.) which had probably 

 been infected during exposure for two days in a room — the 

 interest of the exhibit being that the Hies had been reared on a 

 purely vegetable medium. « 



Mr. Steel communicated the following Note on the abnormal 

 gizzard of a Muscovy duck, exhibited at the last Meeting {antea, 

 p. 361). "On subsequent dissection of the exhibit, it was found 

 that, while the organ was of the usual shape and dimensions ex- 

 ternally, the internal cavity was only about one-third of the 

 normal capacity, and the gizzard- walls correspondingly thick. 

 The vermiform appendage was hollow, and was tightly packed 

 with a hard, brown substance, which broke up on treatment 

 with hot sodium hydrate, but exhibited no traces of vegetable 

 tissue, nor of definite structure, being apparently a secretion 

 from the walls of the appendage. The appendage was completely 

 isolated from thu cavity of the gizzard by a layer of white, fibrous 

 tissue, about \ inch in thickness, this being the thickness of the 

 side-walls of the gizzard at the area of attachment. 'I he speci- 

 men has been placed in the Museum of the Department of 

 Veterinary Science, University of Sydney." 



Mr. Fletcher, on behalf of Mr. Musson and himself, showed 

 seedlings of a number of species of plants, not Eucalypts or 

 Angophoras — including EUeocarpus cyaneus^ Leptospermum 

 JlavesceiLS, Callistemon phii/olius and C. saliynus, Melaleuca 

 nodosa and M. yenistifolia, Trrstania iieriifoiia^ Syiicarpia 

 laurina, Backhousia myrtifolia, Casnariiia sp., Santalum obtusi- 

 folium, and several not identified — which seem to be afflicted, in 

 a similar manner, with composite, shoot-bearing tumours. 



The President offered a cordial welcome to Mr. R. VV. Bretnall, 

 a Soldier-Member recently returned after service abroad. 



