NOTES AXD EXHIBITS. 459 



A few days after I procured the above, I had brought to me a 

 fine adult specimen — also a female — of the great Sea Shark 

 Carclxarodon Rondeletti. It was a very bulky, heavy fish, measuring 

 8 feet 6 inches in length (reported in the Papers as 16 feet), and 

 was, like the other, wonderfully free from parasites of any kind. 

 It was also without young or even enlarged ova. 



The third Shark, also got about the same time, was a fine, full- 

 grown specimen of Pristiophorus cirratus. It was caught by a 

 boy in the harbour, purchased from him by Mr. Ebsworth and 

 presented by him to my Museum. It also was a female, and the 

 oviducts contained three large eggs, (the size of a hen's egg) on 

 one side, and two on the other, all of the same size. I have 

 never heard of an instance of the capture of this species of Saw 

 Fish in Port Jackson until now. 



J. Brazier Esq., C.M.Z.S., submitted Mr. E. C. Eossiter's 

 Onixia ponclerosa, New Caledonia ; two specimens of Helix 

 Thomsonii from Tukan Bessi, and sent by Mr. Thomson of New 

 Bedford. Also the species mentioned in his paper. 



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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBEE 26th, 1879. 



W. J. Stephens, Esq.. M.A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Lamont Young, C.E., F.GKS., Geological Surveyor, was 

 introduced by C. S. Wilkinson, Esq., F.Gr.S. 



DONATIONS. 



From Dr. Hector — The New Zealand Tourist, by Thomas 

 Bracken. 



From Harwood College. — Bulletin of the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, Vol. 5, Nos. 11 to 14. 



