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Mr. William Neill, of the City Bank, sent for exhibition 85 

 small fishes {Galaxias sp.) forwarded to him from London. 

 They were a sample of a quantity weighing 224 lbs taken out 

 of 25 bales of wool shorn on the late Hon. E, Flood's " Midgeon " 

 Station, N.S.W., and subsequently sent to England. The fishes 

 were pumped up from Lake Midgeon in the water used for wool- 

 washing, and became entangled in the wool. 



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Mr. Whitelegge exhibited the following species of Hydroid 

 Zoophytes from Maroubra Bay obtained among and attached to 

 seaweed washed ashore during the gale last May : — Sertularia 

 hidens, Bale, Diphasia subcarinata, Busk, Thuiaria sinuosa, Bale, 

 T. suharticulata, Coughtrey, Aglaophenia sinuosa^ Bale, and Hali- 

 cornaria ftcrcata^ Bale, all additions to the fauna of IST. S. Wales. 

 He also exhibited five species of Polyzoa, two of which have not 

 hitherto been recorded from this part of our coasts^ viz., Ascop)odaria 

 fruticosa, Hincks, Cryptozoon Wilsoni, Dendy, Amathia hicornis, 

 Tenison- Woods, A. Wilsoni, Kirkpatrick, and A. convoluta, Lamx. 

 A very beautiful specimen of the genus Isis was also shown from 

 the same locality, 



Mr. Maiden exhibited some enormous leaves (laminae up to 

 nearly 17 inches) of a Southern Eucalypt, obtained from Bom- 

 bala, locally known as white gum and giant gum, and doubtfully 

 referred to as E. goniocalyx. It is interesting to mention that 

 the trunk of one of these trees was measured by the tape, 3 feet 

 above the ground, and found to be 50 feet in circumference. 



Dr. Cox exhibited a fine specimen of a sea snake (Pelamis 

 hicolor), from Botany Bay ; a living specimen of a river-limpet 

 (Ancylus), obtained on Vallisneria, at Port Hacking, which he 

 proposed to call A. Smithi ; and drawings of a new variety of 

 Cyprcea, from Western Australia. 



