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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited, in a good state of* preservation, a copy of a 

 very old work, Index Testarum Conchylio7'um, by Gualtier, printed 

 and published in Florence, Italy, in 1742. Also a specimen of 

 Cassis nana, Tenison-Woods, from Ballina, Richmond River, the 

 first record of this species from the N.S.W. coast, the type having 

 been found at Moreton Bay by the late Mr. C. Coxen. Also 

 examples of Murex octogonus, Quoy, from Auckland, received from 

 Professor Hutton, and of M. umbilicatus, Tenison-Woods, from 

 South Australia ; the latter was named M. scalaris by A. Adams 

 in 1853, but the name being preoccupied, that of umbilicatus, 

 T. -Woods, must be reverted to. 



Mr. J. H. Maiden exhibited fruits and seeds of the following 

 from Bellenden Ker Range, N. Queensland : — Garcinia mestoni, 

 Bail. ; " Coohoy," Cryptocarya pafmerstoni, Bail. ; C. insignis, 

 Bail. ; Eloiocarpus bancrofti, F.v.M. et Bail. Also from the 

 Herbert River, fruits of the " Herbert River Cherry," Antidesma 

 dallacliyanumi, Bail., ( Euj)horbiacece ). 



Mr. A. G. Hamilton sent for exhibition photographs of the 

 trunk of a fossil tree in situ in the l»ank of American Creek, Mt. 

 Kembla, Illawarra, 355 feet below the 4-foot seam of coal. The 

 tree is embedded in soft coarse sandstone underlying a bed of 

 clayey shale of considerable thickness. Six to ten feet below is a 

 larger trunk under water in the bed of the creek. The trunks lie 

 horizontally, or nearly so, in the matrix. All the creeks in the 

 neighbourhood contain many loose blocks of fossil wood among 

 the stones in their beds. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt exhibited leaves of Eucalyptus obtusifolia 

 attacked by an undetermined coccid, which forms little pits in 

 the leaves and twigs in which it buries itself, the pits after- 

 wards turning into large blisters. 



Mr. Harry Stockdale exhibited, and made some remarks upon, 

 three oil-paintings — portion of a series intended for the Chicago 



