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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. • 687 



original edition of which in Dutch was published in 1714 — a 

 work of interest because of the description and illustration of the 

 Filander, or Aru Island Wallaby {Macro pns brunii, Schreb.), 

 seen by the author in captivity at Batavia in the year 1706. 

 The figure is still the earliest known of any Australian type of 

 Marsupial. But the Filander has had to give place to the little 

 wallaby of Houtman's Abrolhos (probably JIacropiis eugenii, 

 Desm.) as the first Macropod which so far is known to have 

 revealed itself to European eyes, for the recently published 

 investigations of Professor Heeres"^ show that, so long ago 

 as 1629, Commodore Pelsaert — whose ship, the "Batavia," 

 was wrecked on one of the islands in June of that year 

 - — had observed and noted the pouched character, and the 

 mammary fcetus of the wallaby in question. 



The much less satisfactory observations of Vlaming and 

 Dam pier on West Australian wallabies, belong to the last decade 

 of the seventeenth century. 



Mr. Cheel exhibited a very fine collection of Lichens, compris- 

 ing the following forty-seven species or varieties not represented 

 in the Rev. F. R. M. Wilson's " List of Lichens found in New 

 South Wales " (Proc. R. Soc. Queensland, vi., p. 89) : — 



Physma byrsinum, Ach. — Richmond River (F. R. M. Wilson; 

 July, 1894). 



Synechoblastus agyregatus, Ach. — Big Scrub, Ptichmond River 

 (F. R. M. Wilson; July, 1894). 



Pyrgillus javanicus, Njb — Richmond River (F. R. M. Wilson; 

 July, 1894). 



Caliciuin hyperellnm^ Ach. — Berowra (E. Cheel; August, 1902). 



Coniocybe bceomycio^des, Mass. — National Park (E. Cheel ; 

 October, 1902). 



Stereoraidon nanu7n, Ach. — Waterfall (E. Cheel; June, 1901). 



* " The Part borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia, 1606-1765. 

 By J. E. Heeres, LL.D., Professor at the Dutch Colonial Institute, Delft " 

 Published by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society in commemoration of 

 ihe xxvth anniversary of its foundation. Leiden (1899). 



