420 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. E. Cheel exhibited specimens of the common Garden- 

 Geranium {Pelargonium zonale L'Her.) very badly attacked by 

 a Rust, collected at Port Hacking, Ashfield, and Blacktown, 

 which are additional localities to those recorded at the last 

 Meeting. On closely examining the specimens, a few teleuto- 

 sori were found, which had teleutospores agreeing with those of 

 Puccinia Morrisoni McAlp. This species of Rust has previously 

 been recorded only on the host plant Pelargonium australe Jacq., 

 from Victoria and Tasmania, by McAlpine in the "Rusts of 

 Australia" (p. 180); and from Cowcowing, W. A., by the exhibitor 

 (Tnese Proceedings, 1909, p. 500). He exhibited also a curious 

 orange received from Mr. Hugh Dixson, of Summer Hill, which 

 had five darker orange-coloured bands or ridges reaching from 

 pole to pole, interpolated in the paler colour of the fruit. Mr. 

 Dixson reported that the fruit was grown by his son at Killara, 

 and that most of the oranges on the tree were marked similarly, 

 though generally without so many of the ribs. A similar occur- 

 rence has been recorded by Kerner and Oliver (Nat. Hist, of 

 Plants, p. 569) in connection with the " Bizzaria " — a supposed 

 cross between Citrus medica and Citrus aurantium, which, how- 

 ever, is regarded by some authors as a graft-hybrid. 



Mr. Tillyard gave some particulars about a deposit of limited 

 extent, recently discovered in the Upper Trias of Ipswich, which 

 contained fossil insects of the greatest interest. The Govern- 

 ment Geologist had taken steps to accumulate and preserve the 

 material with a view to a thorough scientific investigation 

 thereof. 



Mr. North exhibited some type-sets of Australian birds' eggs 

 from his private collection, most of which had been originally 

 described at Meetings of this Society. Among them were eggs 

 of — Corvus ben7ietti, jElurcedus viridis^ Sphecotheres maxillaris, 

 C ollyriocincla cerviniventris, C. parvissima, Edoliisoma tenui- 

 rostre, Rhipidura albicauda, Sisura 7iana, Erythrodryas rosea, 

 Poecilodryas capito, Smicrornis flavesce^is, Gerygone magnirostris, 

 Malurus cyanochlamys, M. assimilis, Amytis textilis, A. modesta, 

 Acanthiza uropygialis, A. zietzi, Sphenura hroadhenti, Climac- 



