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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. North exhibited a set of four eggs of Tiirnix leucogastei\ 

 recently described by him. The eggs were taken at Illamurta, 

 Central Australia, on the 18th of June, 1895 ; and are of a buffy^- 

 white ground-colour, minutely freckled and sparingly spotted with 

 diiFerent shades of chestnut-brown, purplish-brown, and violet- 

 grey; an average specimen measuring 0-9 x 0*73 inch. 



Mr. Steel showed a very large specimen of a ship-worm ( Teredo) 

 from redgum (?) piles in the fresh water of the Rewa River, Fiji, 

 collected by Mr. T. Ferguson. 



Mr. Froggatt showed .a representative collection of some eighty 

 named species of Australian Ants (^Formicidce). Also speci- 

 mens of a beetle {Arthropteriis hrevis, Westw.) belonging to the 

 family Paussidce, captured in the nests of a common Australian 

 Ant (Ecatomma metallicum). African species of this family 

 commonly occur in such situations, but the exhibitor was unaware 

 of any record of this habit in Australian species. 



Messrs. Maiden and Baker exhibited a number of plants and 

 photos in illustration of their paper. 



Messrs. Etheridge and Mitchell exhibited a number of Trilobites 

 in illustration of their paper. 



Mr. Mitchell exhibited several specimens of GlossojHeris from 

 Croudace's Hill, near Lambton, Newcastle, showing very apparent 

 evidences of what is probably fructification similar to that of an 

 Asplenium. Some specimens of a like character were collected 

 by him from the cliffs on the Old Race Course Beach. Also a 

 specimen of what appears to be a Lycopodium, near L. ffuthieri, 

 Gopp., or L. macrophyllum, Gold., from the South Bulli Colliery. 

 This is the first record of a fossil Lycopod from the New South 

 Wales coal-bearing series. 

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