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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Palmer exhibited a broken aboriginal stone axe fonnd l)y 

 liim in a cave shelter at Lawson, Blue Mts. 



Mr. Pedlej exhibited a very fine and perfect saw, about 5 ft. long, 

 of the saw-fish Pristis zysron, Bleeker. The fish without the saw 

 was about 19 ft. long, and was captured in a net at Evans River, 

 N.S.W. The number of pairs of rostral teeth for this species is 

 usually given as from 26-32 ; the specimen exhibited had only 25 

 pairs, all in place. 



Mr. Whitelegge exhibited the following interesting collection 

 of mosses obtained by him at Lord Howe Island, and determined 

 by Professor Brothei'us of Helsingfors. Twenty species are repre- 

 sented, of which seven are new, some of the remainder also not 

 having been previously recorded from Lord Howe Island. 



Euptychiuni mucronatiom, Hanipe. 



Euptychium robustum, Hampe. 



Macromitritvm j^eraristatum, Brotherus, n.sp. 



Macromitrium brevisetaceum, Hampe. 



Rhizogonitcm undulatum, Lindberg. 



Rhizogonium Parramattense, C. Miiller. 



Bryum Whiteleggei, Brotherus, n.sp. 



Bryum leticacanthum, Hampe. 



Distichophyllum leucolonia, Brotherus, n.sp. 



Cyatlwpliorum ^iennatum, Bridel. 



Thuidium protensuluin, C. Miiller. 



Trichosteleum (?) muscicola, Brotherus, n.sp. 



Dicranum dicarpum, Hornschuch. 



Campy lopus bartramioides, Bi-otherus, n.sp. 



Leucobryum pseudo-caiididuin, Brotherus, n.sp. 



Pterobryella praetdtens, Hampe. 



Pilotrichella trichophoroides, Hampe. 



Porotrichum vagiom, Hornschuch. 



Fissidens ( C onomitrium ) huweanus, Brotherus, n.sp. 



Spiridens MUlleri, Hampe. 



