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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Edgar R. Waite exhibited a number of living "Waltzing 

 Mice, quite recently received from Japan, where these curious 

 animals appear to have originated. They were first made known 

 in Europe b}^ M. C. Schlumberger, in 1893. Last year he pul)- 

 lislied a description with figures copied from Japanese ivory 

 carvings representing these mice (Mem. 8oc. Zool. de France, 189-I-, 

 p. 63). M. Schlumberger's mice and also Mr. Waite's are white 

 variegated with black; the exliibitor had bred some entirely 

 white but with discernible faint fawn marks indicating what 

 portions would normally be l^lack. These mice are constantly 

 rotating, and this trait constitutes the peculiarity which gives to 

 them their trivial name. 



Mr. Maiden showed a series of botanical specimens in illustra- 

 tion of his paper. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of the beetles described in 

 his paper, and drawings of six of them in different stages of their 

 life-history. Also, some pine resin from the stems of FreneUa 

 rohu^ta, collected near Wagga, X.S.W., and sent to the Techno- 

 logical Museum, in which are enclosed and beautifully preserved 

 a, large number of insects, at least eight difi'erent species of 

 Fonnici'Jice, MiUilla sp., Chalcis sp., besides about twenty different 

 .species of Coleoptera. 



Mr. Masters exhibited a very attractive collection of 420 species 

 of Coleoptera collected b}^ him during a stay of five days at Black- 

 heath, Blue Mts. 



Mr. Fred. Turner sent for exhil^ition flowering and fruiting 

 specimens of a plant ( Adriana a&erifolia, Hook.) suspected of 

 poisoning cattle. He also communicated the particulars of two 

 cases in each of which the patient had been authoritatively pro- 

 nounced by two medical men to be suffering from hydatids, and 

 an operation recommended, but, it was asserted, relief had been 

 otherwise obtained from tlie use of a decoction prepared from 



