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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited a fine specimen of the ringed snake 

 ( VermiceUa annulata) found under a large stone at the foot of 

 the Waverley cemetery by Mr. Worth. 



Mr. Brazier also exhibited a specimen of Cardium vertehratum, 

 Jonas, from Keppel Bay, N. Queensland, and he contributed a 

 Note on the geographical distribution of the species. 



Mr. A. H. Lucas exhibited specimens of Honey Ants (Cam- 

 27onotus inflafus), and Lizards collected by Prof. Baldwin Spencer 

 in Central Australia, during the breeding season of 1895, com- 

 prising both sexes of Amjyhibolurus pictus, A. maculatus, and A. 

 reticulaUis, showing the sexual colouring; Moloch horridus (9). 

 Also specimens of Egernia stokesii and E. dejyressa, the latter from 

 Coolgardie. 



Mr. Steel called attention to a recent interesting paper by Mr. 

 T. W. Hogg, on the immunity of some low forms of life from lead- 

 poisoning (Journ. Soc. Chem. Industry, 1895, p. 344). The 

 presence of 1 •5-2-5 per cent, of lead, calculated as PbO, in an 

 averao-e dried sample, was found not to militate against the 

 occupation of the waste bark heap of the Elswick Lead Works by 

 various organisms, including earthworms. 



Mr. Froggatt showed, in illustration of his paper, spirit speci- 

 mens of a number of Termites, photograj^hs of remarkaV)le termi- 

 taria, portions of nests, and specimens of timbers variously 

 attacked. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited specimens of the new Elceocajyus described 

 by Mr. Baker and himself. 



Mr. Pedle}^ showed a highly ornamented hielaman or aboriginal 

 shield recently received from the Narran River, N.S.W. 



Mr. North exhibited a series of specimens of Zosterops 

 cceruhscens, and pointed out the seasonal variations in the plumage 

 of this species. Z. cceridescens of Latham, (Z. dorsalis, Gould, 



