212 NOTES AXD EXniEITS. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Morton exhibited, on behalf Mr. Eamsay, Curator of the 

 Australian Museum, a new species of Solea from Port Jackson, 

 and of Cor is from Lord Howe's Island, the same species havinf;^ 

 also been found in Broken Bay ; a Tomahawk formed of hard 

 quartzite by cleavage, showing four faces, and used as a weapon 

 by the blacks of the Northern Territory of South Australia ; 

 knives of chert, said to have been used for the purpose of laying 

 open the urethra, and ovariotomy, in the northern districts ; a 

 spear headed with obsidian, and block of the same, from the 

 Admiralty Islands ; brushes used by the natives of the Northern 

 Territory', and formed of the crest feathers of Leadbeater's 

 Cockatoo, inserted in the wing bone of the Native Companion ; 

 two specimens of a Pinna from the Island of Rarotonga, where 

 they are considered rare. 



Mr. Haswell exhibited a specimen of the female generative 

 organs of the Platypus, showing the ova in a stage ready to be 

 discharged ; impregnationhadnot taken place and on examination 

 of the uteri they showed no trace of a foetus. 



WEDNESDAY, 28tit JUNE, 1882. 



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



;\rEi\rnEii elected. 

 Pev. Joseph Campbell, !M.A. 



donations. 



''Anniversary IMomoirs of the Boston Societ}- of Natural 

 nistory published in celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of 

 the Society's Foundation (18.'^0-1880). 



"Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institute," 1879. 



