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containing leaves of Cinnamoinum Leichhardtii, Ett., all from the 

 Warrumbungle Mts. 



Mr. Steel exhibited (1) a nodule popularly but erroneously 

 supposed to be of meteoric origin, from the MacDonnell Ranges : 



(2) a large Crustacean (Ihacus pero7iii) caught at Pyrmont: and 



(3) a specimen of growing sugar cane forwarded from the Clar- 

 ence River by Mr. W. J. Freeman, attacked by Termites; the 

 soft interior of the cane was scooped out, and then filled with a 

 brown deposit; the results of a chemical analysis of the latter 

 were submitted for comparison with those of an analysis of a 

 fresh sample of the deposit from an ordinary Termite nest. 



Mr. North called attention to the numbers of dead specimens 

 of Mutton Birds (Nectris brevicaudus), near Sydney, washed up 

 on the beaches during the past fortnight, and to which reference 

 had been made in recent issues of the "Sydney Morning Herald " 

 by Mr. Cavendish Liardet and Mr. Woolcot-Waley. In company 

 with the former gentleman Mr. North visited the beach at Bondi 

 on the 30th inst., and found hundreds of the bodies of these birds. 

 Several fresh specimens were collected in the hope that an exami- 

 nation would throw some light on the cause of the unusual 

 mortality in this species. Usually it is a rare bird in New 

 South Wales waters, and just now has probably been driven from 

 the south, where it is abundant, by severe gales. Mr. Brazier had 

 recorded at a meeting of this Society in December, 1880, a simi- 

 lar instance of mortality among several species of sea birds 

 (Proceedings, Yol. Y., p. 637). 



