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Mr. H. Leighton Kesteven exhibited a specimen of the curious 

 fungus, Aseroe rubra Labill., collected by Dr. Leighton Kesteven 

 at Mullumbioiby, Brunswick River, N.S.W. 



Mr. E. Cheel exhibited, and contributed Notes upon, a very 

 interesting collection of Fungi, representing 29 genera and 38 

 species, including one species and one form not previously 

 described; and several species not hitherto recorded from New 

 South Wales. Series of examples of Aseroe rubra Labill., and 

 Lysurus australiensis Cke. & Massee, preserved in spirit, and 

 illustrating different stages of growth, were particularly worthy 

 of note. (For a list of the species, see p. 202). 



Dr. E. S. Stokes showed a remarkable felted deposit of fila- 

 mentous Algae from filter-beds at West Maitland; a sample of a 

 diatomaceous deposit {Amphora sp.) from the same locality; and 

 a quantity of the dried thalli of Chroococcus from the storage 

 reservoir at the same place. 



Mr. Duncan Carson sent for exhibition the greater portion of 

 the right ramus of the lower jaw of an immature example of one 

 of the large extinct Marsupials (Diprotodon australis Owen) 

 which had been found in what well-sinkers term "wash," at a 

 depth of 40 feet in sinking a well, situated about three miles 

 from Tanbar Springs in the Gunnedah district. The specimen 

 was nine inches in length, a portion of each end of the ramus 

 being missing; and showed the remnants of three cheek-teeth. 



Mr. Fletcher showed five typical examples of a frog, Hyla 

 Ewingii D. & B., collected recently on King Island, Bass Straits, 

 by Mr. Arthur M. Lea of Hobart. This may perhaps be 

 the frog recorded as ^^ Hyla sp." in the " Fauna of King Island," 

 compiled from the collections obtained by Members of the Field 

 Naturalists' Club of Victoria in 1887 (Victorian Naturalist, iv. 

 139); otherwise the species is unrecorded from this insular 

 habitat. 



