NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



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Soc. Tasmania, 1875 (1H76), p. 153. The opportunity was 

 seized to sketch of this hitherto unfigured species the drawings 



now pi-esented. This species 

 has been discovered in Vic- 

 toria by Mr. J. H. Gatliif, 

 who collected it at Flinders, 

 Western Port." 



"At a late nieetingof this 

 Society, it was announced 

 by Mr. Brazier, apparently 

 on negative evidence, that 

 Patella kermadecensis did 

 not inhabit the Kerrnadec 

 group as stated by Pilsbry. 

 Mr. C. Spencer, a concho- 

 logist resident in Auckland, 

 New Zealand, has since 

 communicated to me a com- 

 plete and contrary account 

 of the discovery of the 

 species. It was collected 

 at Raoul or Sunday Island, 

 ])y the crew and at the 

 (jrders of Captain Fairchild 

 of the Government steamer 

 " Hinemoa." Brought by 

 him from the Kermadecs 

 to Auckland, specimens 

 were thence distributed to 

 the United States and else- 

 where." 



"The shelly tubes that I 



now exhibit, like (if I may 



be excused so frivolous a 



comparison) bits of fossil gaspipe, are built by the mollusk 



Kuphus areiiarius, Linn. This rare animal is one of the few 



