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construction and position to tliose of A. pacijica. By this time 

 my bag was pretty well full, so I made my way sliorewards and 

 returned home well pleased with the result of my day's labours, 

 though smarting dreadfully from the combined effects of " Eoley 

 Foley " thorns, and the stings of ants, to say nothing of sun- 

 burned shoulders. 



KOTES AI^D EXHIBITS. 



Dr. Ewan exhibited a sample of nitrate of uranium, a most 

 j)Owerf ul irritant, also of caffeine. He gave an account of the 

 preparation and characters of this drug, and remarked on its 

 physiological action, it first producing spasm and then paralysis 

 in dogs, rabbits, cats, birds, and fish ; one grain injected into the 

 vein of a small dog being sufficient to destroy life. He said that 

 the peculiar effects produced by taking strong coffee were 

 attributable to the presence of a certain percentage of caffeine. 

 Dr. Ewan also exhibited specimens of citrate of caffeine, and 

 a large specimen of the gum resin of Eucalifptiis rjlohulus, from 

 near Launceston, Tasmania. 



Dr. Cox, exhibited a specimen of Lcdirus Sfranr/ei, of A. 

 Adams, collected from the sea shore at Bulli. This species had 

 been so briefly recorded by Mr. Adams that it was difficult to 

 identify ; no measurement or figures being given. The length 

 of this rare specimen was one inch and a-quartcr. Mr. Strange 

 was the first to find the species, but one specimen has since been 

 collected by Mr. John Brazier, at the Bottle and Grlass rocks, 

 and one at Shark Island in Port Jackson. Dr. Cox also exhibited 

 a number of fossil nuts and seeds which had been presented to 

 him by Mr. William Newton, junr., who had obtained them at 

 a depth of 210 feet in washdirt found under the basaltic rock in 

 the shaft of the Grreat Extended claim, Eorest lieefs, Orange. 

 The specimens shown represented the species llhytldocaryon 



