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NOTKS AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited a collection of Javanese plants, chiefly 

 species newl}^ described by Dr. B. P. G. Hochreutiner, and form- 

 ing portion of a set of '* Plants Bogorienses Exsiccataj " (1904). 

 They were presented by Dr. M. Treub, Director of the Botanic 

 Gardens of Buitenzorg, to the National Herbarium, Sydney. 

 Also a selection of the plants collected by Banks and Solander 

 at Botany Bay and Northern Queensland during the First Expe- 

 dition of Captain Cook in the "Endeavour" in 1770. These 

 plants were figured by artists employed by Sir Joseph Banks, and 

 the figures were engraved on copper during the eighteenth 

 century, but not published by Mr. Britten, under the authority 

 of the Trustees of the British Museum, until the year 1900 and 

 subsequently. The plants, to the number of nearly six hundred, 

 were presented by the Trustees of the British Museum. The 

 Botany Bay specimens have, of course, special interest for Sydney 

 botanists, to whom Cook's landing place is very familiar, since it 

 is but a suburb of their city. 



Messrs. Maiden and Cambage exhibited a series of specimens 

 illustrative of the Eucalypts of the Blue Mountains. 



Mr. Cambage showed photographs and botanical specimens in 

 illustration of his paper on the flora of the country between 

 Orange, Dubbo and Gilgandra, N.S.W. Also a photograph of 

 a carved Aboriginal Grave Tree (in this case a Bull Oak, 

 Casuarina Luehmanni, R. T. Baker) on Bongeabong Station, 

 Marthaguy Creek, Gilgandra. 



Mr. R. T. Baker exhibited the edible tubers of a species of 

 Vitis, at present undetermined, from Moor Creek, Tamworth, 

 N.S.W., collected by Mr. B. E. Simpson. The specimens shown 

 weighed about 4 lbs., but the largest obtained by the collector 

 w^eighed over 17 lbs. They differ from most indigenous tubers 

 in the absence of fibrous tissue; and the taste much resembles 

 that of a turnip. A chemical analysis and experiments remain 

 to l)e carried out and the results will be submitted to the Society 

 later on. 



