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Dr. Chapman also showed a microscopic slide which illustrated 

 the phagocytosis of tubercle bacilli by washed leucocytes. The 

 bacilli and leucocytes were in contact in normal salt solution at 

 37° C. for two hours. Rather more than 25 % of the polynuclear 

 leucocytes contained numerous bacilli, the remaining polynuclear 

 leucocytes being free from bacilli. 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited, and offered observations on, some 

 very interesting flowering specimens gathered from a tree thought 

 to be a natural hybrid between Sterculia diversifolia G. Don, the 

 "Kurrajong," and S. acerifolia A. Cunn., the "Flame Tree." 

 The leaves are ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, quite glabrous 

 and correspond, even to the venation, to the simple-leaved form 

 of the former species. The inflorescence, which is disposed in 

 axillary panicles much exceeding the foliage, is quite glabrous 

 except for a slight tomentum on the margins of the calyx-lobes, 

 of a bright red colour on the outside resembling the calyces of 

 S. acerifolia, but inside marked with yellow and purple like 

 those of S. diversifolia. Male flowers only seen. 



Mr. T. Steel exhibited a very large specimen of Saunders' Case- 

 Moth (Metura elongata Saund.), the case being 7 inches in length 

 and the moth itself -ij inches. 



Mr. D. G. Stead exhibited a curiously deformed right claw of 

 a large Mangrove Crab, Scylla serrata (Forskal), which show^ed a 

 remarkable " attempt " at the formation of a supplementary 

 " nipper " on its lower surface. 



Mr. Pv. T. Baker exhibited a specimen, together with a 

 coloured drawing, of a representative of the rare genus Adeno- 

 chillis [N.O. ORCHiDEiE] obtained at Wentworth Falls, Blue 

 Mountains, on the 11th inst. by Mr. F. H. Taylor. Only a single 

 species of the genus, A. Nortoni Fitzg., had been recorded for 

 Australia, and that from Mount Victoria. The plant exhibited 

 differed in some respects from Fitzgerald's description and figure; 

 it was smaller, more delicate, with pink flowers and a much 

 smaller basal leaf. The flower was also less than half the size. 



