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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. Cox exhibited the club o£ a chief of Malanta Island, 

 Solomon G-roup, the handle beautifully inlaid with ' mother of 

 pearl,' at one end a stone encased by being worked over with 

 fibre and at the distal end a conventional representation of a 

 human boot. 



Mr. E. P. Eamsay, F.L.S., exhibited drawings of the dentition, 

 skull, and feet of the new rat, {Miis salamonis), described in 

 his paper ; also, the egg of the Victorian Lyre Bird, (Memira 

 victoricB, Grould) from Port Phillip : drawings of a new species of 

 Bat Tnpliozoiis sp. ? from New South Wales, and a sketch of a 

 restored jaw of Thylacoleo carnifex, Owen. 



]\[r. Alex. Morton exhibited the following very choice and rare 

 Birds from the Solomon Islands : — CJialcoJiajps mortoni, Bamsay ; 

 lantJiena ^liili'p'peai}ce^ Bamsay ; Adur versicolor^ Bamsay ; Astur 

 alhif/ularis, Grey ; JPtiJojms ricliordsi, Bamsay ; Ptilopus leivisiij 

 Bamsay; FtUopiis eugenice, Gould; Sfttrnoides minor, TiixinssLj ; 

 TrichogJossus margarettcE, Tristram ; Myzomela sjJ. ? ; Myzomela 

 tristrami, Bamsay. 



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WEDNESDAY, 22nd EEBBUABY, 1882. 



The President Dr. James C. Cox, E.L.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. H. Try on, from New Zealand, and Mr. A. G-. Balston, 

 B.A., were introduced as visitors. 



MEMBEKS ELECTED. 



Dr. p. H. MacGillivray, of Victoria ; Dr. Ewan, AVynyard 

 Square ; Mr. J. E. Bailey, Swanston Street, Melbourne. 

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