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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



The President exhibited a number of botanical specimens from 

 the Tweed River, including fruiting examples of Elceocarpus 

 grandis, F.v.M., locally known as the Blue Fig or Quandong, an 

 interesting slender variety of Pteris tremula^ Aspidutm tenerum, 

 Adiantum cethiopicum, and other ferns at present undetermined. 

 Also Gleichenia dichotoma, Hk., from the Hawkesbury River; 

 cones of Sequoia gigantea; and an undetermined Banksia which 

 needs investigation. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited his collection of Sydney Cicadas. 



Mr. Steel showed a Gecko (Gehyra vorax, Gir.) from the Rewa 

 River, Fiji. He also remarked that the animal when alive is 

 extremely flaccid, as if it had no bones; it is also apparently to 

 some extent vegetarian in its diet, portions of leaves of the sugar 

 cane as well as of an undetermined plant having been found in 

 the stomach of a specimen dissected. 



Mr. Fletcher showed some English humble bees, the defunct 

 portion of a consignment from ISTew Zealand recently brought over 

 by the Department of Agriculture in the hope of the successful 

 acclimatisation of the insects. Of the survivors some were 

 liberated in the Botanic Gardens, and some in the Society's 

 garden. As the bees were set free just after the first of the 

 recent rains, they should have a fair chance of doing well; and 

 any information about their subsequent movements and operations 

 would be welcome. 



