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of New Soiitli Wales some years ago. He now supplied the 

 information, that the paper was read at a meeting on 9th April, 

 1889; and was subsequently published in the " Rural Austra- 

 lian," 1st May, 1889, at that time the otlicial organ of the iSofiety. 



Mr. MeCulloeh exhibited a copy of the first part of the "Aus- 

 tralian Zoolocrist," a new publication issued by the Royal Zoo- 

 logical Society of New South Wales. Attention was drawn to 

 the large-sized page and plate, which are particularly convenient 

 for certain classes of work. He also exhibited a specimen of an 

 interesting fish, Jordanidia solandri Cuv. it Val. It w^as origin- 

 ally noticed bv Solander, naturalist to Cook's first voyage to 

 Australian waters, who described it us Scomber macrophthcdmus^ 

 a manuscript name afterwards altered to GeAwpyluH solandri by 

 Cuvier k Valenciennes. Tt w^as also named Thyrsites lyiicropus 

 by McCoy, while Waite has recently pi-oposed the new generic 

 and specific names Bexea farci/era foi- it. Tt proves to belong to 

 the o-enus Jordanidia Snyder, however, and should, therefore, be 

 called J. solandri. 



Mr. Mitchell exhibited specimens of a fossil fish, found in the 

 Newcastle Coal-Measures. It probably belongs to the Paheonis- 

 cidin. This fossil is interesting, because it is the only one yet 

 obtained from the Coal-Measures in a good state of preservation. 

 The specimens were found in a railway cutting at the junction 

 of the New^castle Wallsend Coal Company's line with the Great 

 Northern Railway. The geological horizon of the occurrence of 

 these fossils is about 200 feet below^ the Borehole Coal-seam of 

 the Newcastle Series. He also reported the occurrence of the 

 trilobite, Calymene nasuta, in the Upper Silurian rocks of 

 Bowning. 



Mr. A. A. Hamilton showed a series of botanical specimens 

 from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, including: (1) Lactuca virosa 

 Linn., (Cult.), showing complicated prolifieation. An umbel of 

 abortive flowers projects from the primary eapitulum, which is 

 reduced to a foliaceous involucre. The flowers consist of an in- 

 volucre supporting a series of florets, which have united, and form 



