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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited many of the plants referred to in Papers 

 Nos. 4 and 5 respectively. 



Also specimens of the Northern Territory Cypress Pine 

 {Frenela intratropica, P.v.M.; probably also F. 77iicrocarpa, A. 

 Cunn.). It is very close to' CaUitris columellaris, F.v.M., as type 

 specimens of the latter exhibited show. At the same time 

 the characteristic elongated columella of C. columf.llaris is almost 

 wanting in the Northern Territory plant, while the timber of 

 the latter is reputed more resistant to white ant. If considered to 

 be distinct, the name CaUitris intratropica, or the alternative one 

 C. columellaris, F.v.M., var. intratropica, is proposed for it. 



Likewise a flower of Helicodiceros jiiv.scivorus, Engl. {Arum 

 crinit.um, Ait.), a remarkable Aroid from Corsica, flowered by 

 Mr. W. Forsyth, Centennial Park. 



Mr. D. G. Stead mentioned instances of recognisable variations 

 in shape and colouration in Australian freshwater and estuarine 

 fishes according as they frequented running streams or normally 

 saline waters, or were isolated in stagnant lagoons or the waters 

 were unduly saline during a period of drought. 



Dr. Greig Smith exhibited the carcases of three bush mice 

 affected with a skin disease about the head, forwarded from Tam- 

 worth by Mr. W. W. Froggatt; also a preparation under the 

 microscope showing the growths to be of a fungoid character, 

 possibly a case of Mouse-Favus. Many deaths were reported as 

 due to the disease. 



Mr. Palmer stated that the female of a pair of Chestnut-eared 

 Finches {IVerdopygia castanotis, Gould) in his aviary, which were 

 caught at Lawson, laid altogether 17 eggs last year; and that 

 this year she had reared a brood of six young ones, and sub- 

 sequently had laid three eggs. 



