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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Froggatt showed specimens of a small beetle (Fam. 

 Hispidce) received from Mr. J. H. Maiden, to whom they had 

 bean forwarded b}' the Manager of a large plantation in New 

 Britain, with the information that the larvae were destroying the 

 fronds and buds of the cocoanut palms in a very serious manner. 



Dr. Greig Smith exhibited cultures and products obtained 

 during the investigation of Sterculia gum. Also the cork from 

 a sample bottle of a quantity of deteriorated wine, showing exten- 

 sive damage due to the borings of insect larvae. 



Mr. Steel exhibited a specimen from one of the prehistoric so- 

 called "Vitrified Forts" occurring in Scotland, and gave an 

 account of these remarkable relics (for a detailed account with 

 bibliography, see Encyclop. Brit., 9th Ed., Vol. xxiv., p. 263). 



Mr. H. S. Mort exhibited a specimen of Dimya corrugata, 

 Hedley, from Long Bay. The species was described from material 

 obtained during the " Thetis " Expedition, and is only the second 

 recent species of the genus. 



Mr. Fred Turner exhibited specimens of Chenopodium rhadi- 

 stachyum, F.v.M., a rather uncommon Chenopod from Roebourne, 

 W.A.: 3iiidTecoma Hiliii, F.v.M., one of the rarest of Australian 

 plants, and the most beautiful of the Australian Bignoniacece; 

 one plant was found by the exhibitor at Harvey Bay in 1876; 

 and in Part iv. of the recently published " Queensland Flora " 

 Mr. F. M. Bailey reports that no other plant in the wild state 

 had since been discovered. 



Professor David showed a series of rock specimens, fossils, rock 

 sections under microscopes, and lantern slides, in illustration of 

 Mr. Woolnough's paper. 



