560 XOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



in Queensland, but only very sparingly so, I believe that that is 

 the absolute northern limit of the species. 



]S'OTES A3fD EXHIBITS. 



Prof. Stephens exhibited specimens of rocks and fossils 

 illustrative of his paper upon the Western Coal-fields, together 

 with examples of Siluro-Devonian Brachiopoda from the Murrum- 

 bidgee near Yass, and from the Minjary Ranges near Tumut, 

 apparently identical with those from Mount Lambie and Coco 

 Creek. 



Dr. Cox exhibited samples of Oysters from the beds leased 

 by Mr. Woodward at Swan Bay, near Cape Hawke. These were 

 of three distinct types ; first, those designated by Mr. AYoodward 

 as the Bank Oysters, secondly those which had been taken from 

 the same bank and which had been improved by being placed in 

 more favourable waters ; and third, large Drift Oysters taken 

 from their natural bed about 600 yards above where the Bank 

 Oysters were taken from. Also a torch from the Duke of York 

 Island, composed of a resinous substance enclosed in large leaves 

 These torches are used by the natives at night to attract fish. 



Mr. E. P. Ramsay exhibited specimens of Sandstone, of 

 Shale containing fossil plant impressions, and of Coal, from 

 Xancarrow's new Coal Mines between Dubbo and AYellington. 

 Also specimens of Fire Clay and Burnt Ironstone from the same 

 locality. Also three stone implements from Samoa, which had 

 been dug up in forming a Plantation, at a depth of five feet from 

 the surface. They were found on a sandy bottom supposed to 

 be a raised beach, by Mr. Parkinson of Samoa. One of them 

 was a large flat chopper-like implement with a sharp cutting edge 

 and a thick blunt back — about two feet in length, five inches in 

 breadth, and two inches in thickness. The second was an adze 

 found in the same place of a different material from that at 



