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W. Bauerlen in the south of this State. The species has not 

 hitherto been referred to in this Society's Proceedings. 



Mr. Johnston exhibited mounted specimens and sections in 

 illustration of his paper. 



Mr. R. Helms exhibited a remarkable spider (Dicrostichus sp.) 

 from Rose Bay, together with its nest and egg-bags. 



The President exhibited several botanical relics of very great 

 historical interest to Australian botanists, namely, a specimen of 

 Eucalyptus rohusta, Sm., collected and labelled by Robert Brown 

 "Swamp Mahogany, Septr. 1803, near the sleeping-place, Sydney"; 

 a sample of the drying paper used by the same botanist in 1802, 

 with a number of notes thereon in his own handwriting, showing 

 the patient care exercised in drying his specimens; and a speci- 

 men of Emhothrium \_Lomatia\ tinctorium collected in Tasmania 

 in 1801 by Labillardiere, whose herbarium was subsequently 

 acquired by Mr. Webb, of Florence, and afterwards presented to. 

 the Botanical Institute of the same city. 



