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Mr. Froggatt showed a specimen of Girella tricusjndata prepared 

 to illustrate a mode of preserving and exhibiting fish by casting in 

 plaster of Paris, lining the mould with the skin and so filling it. 



A portion of the collections of seaweed referred to by the 

 President was exhibited, and in reference to them Mr. Deane 

 expressed the hope that the opportunity of referring to a named 

 collection would help to promote among the members of the 

 Society the study of this section of the Flora. 



The President exhibited a specimen of Valuta magnifica 

 obtained at a depth of 70 feet below sea-level at Stockton Pit, 

 Newcastle. 



The President pointed out that the stems with prominent 

 ridges of cork, shown at the February meeting, probably belong 

 to Mezoneiirum hrachycaiyum^ Benth., [Fl. Aust. II., 278 ; also 

 Wing's "Southern Science Record," April, 1882, where Baron v. 

 Mueller gives some notes upon this plant and an allied species M. 

 Scortechinii]. The flanges and cylindrical projections of cork 

 which clothe the stems of this climber probably serve in place of 

 hooks or prickles — which in this species are rudimentary — to 

 support the plant among the branches of other trees. 



