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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Baron von Mueller communicated a list of mosses collected at 

 Tamworth b}- C. T. Musson, Esq., in 1890, and named by Herr 

 Adalbert Geheeb, 1894. — Ptychomitrium comniutatum^ C Miiller ; 

 Leskea calochlora, CM. ; Bryum aryenteum, L., var., niveiim ; B. 

 subleptothecmm, CM. ; Funaria hygrometrica, Hedwig ; Zygodon 

 Preissianus, Hampe ; Brentelia pendida, Hooker ; Thuidium 

 erectnm, Hamp<^. 



Mr. Hedley read the following note : — " Fiom the throat of a 

 Rallus jiectoralis Mr. J, A. Thorpe of the Australian Museum 

 extracted the snail I now exhibit. This is a specimen of Ghloritis 

 jerviserms, Quoy and Gaimard, a species common in this neighbour- 

 hood, whose almost adult and uninjured shell measures 18 mm. in 

 diameter, and which weighed, shell and animal together, 1'26 

 grammes. When found by Mr. Thorpe, to whom 1 am indebted 

 for both facts and specimen, the snail was quite dead ; as a test I 

 immersed the animal in strong spirits without inducing contrac- 

 tion ; since, however, its consumer had been killed forty hours 

 earlier, the suffocation of the mullusc was to be expected. The 

 bird was shot at Randwick, near Sydney, on the 19th May, 1894, 

 by Mr. Newcombe, Deputy Registrar-General. In enumerating 

 "Means of Dispersal," Darwin observes (Origin of Species, 6th 

 ed. p. 372) : 'A bird in this interval [eighteen hours] might easily 

 be blown to the distance of 500 miles, and hawks are known to 

 look out for tired birds, and the contents of their torn crops might 

 thus readily get scattered.' In view of the above incident, this 

 suggests a means whereby the geographical range of jervisensis 

 might be considerably extended." 



Mr. Lucas exhibited two small fishes from Central Australia 

 (near the McDonnell Ranges), which had been forwarded to him 

 by Mr. C. French, F.L.S., of Melbourne. Both specimens were 



