744 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 10 Vols., 58 Parts or Nos., 13 

 Bulletins, 5 Reports, 3 Pamphlets, received from 43 Societies, 

 &c., and 2 Individuals, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. David G. Stead exhibited a well preserved example of the 

 curious so-called •' Beaked Salmon," Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus 

 (Linne) which has usually been looked upon as one of the rarest 

 members of the New South Wales fish fauna, and which was 

 recorded from these waters for the first time, by Ogilby, in the 

 Society's Proceedings for 1899(p.l54). Specimens from the follow- 

 ing localities on the coast of New South Wales had been examined: 

 Tuggerah Lakes (two records); Port Jackson; Botany Bay; Co mo, 

 George's River; Wollongong; Lake Illawarra (two records); from 

 the mouth of a snapper captured 3 miles east of Green well 

 Point Lighthouse (this was a young specimen and is a very 

 interesting record); Conjola Lake. In the case of the second 

 record at Lake Illawarra (June, 1906) many specimens, aggre- 

 gating about half a basket, were captured in one haul. 



Dr. Greig-Smith gave an interesting resume of his impressions 

 and experiences on visiting a number of the more important 

 bacteriological laboratories and institutions of the United King- 

 dom and on the Continent during a recent tour in Europe. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited flowers of Jasminum grandiflorum 

 Linn., from the Society's garden, almost every one of them afibrcling 

 an instance of median floral prolification (" hose in hose "). The 

 continued dry weather at present prevailing was, perhaps, a 

 stimulus to the production of abnormal flowers. Similar 

 occurrences had not been noticed in previous years. 



