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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. Cox exhibited a Cup made of Cocoanut, which had been used 

 for baling Kava out of the large bowl in which it is mixed. The 

 interior was from long use coated with a thin, bj-ight, and iridescent 

 surface, corresponding to the thick porcellanous deposit which lines 

 the larger vessels. 



Mr. Prince exhibited a fine specimen, 10 inches in diameter, of 

 the nidamentax'y capsule or "shell" of Aryonauta nodosa, var. 

 pacifica, washed ashore at Manly. Also a large Orange Cowrie, 

 Cijprvna aurantia, \^ inches in length, from Fiji. 



Surgeon-Major Williams exhibited a collection of arms and 

 implements from the Soudan, including javelins, shield of hippo- 

 potamus hide, cxirved and double-edged knives of fine steel, a 

 throwing stick like the Australian "fighting boomerang," camel- 

 sticks for driving, hats, rosaries always of 33 pieces, phylacteries 

 containing a verse of the Koran and worn round arm or neck, a 

 purse, and a sort of skewer used as a comb. 



Mr. MacMahon exhibited specimens of highly micaceous sand- 

 stone from North Shore. 



Mr. Macleay exhibited a fine specimen of a Carboniferous fossil, 

 Aviculopecten, found on the beach at Double Bay, and supposed to 

 have been dropped there by a previous possessor. 



Mr. Macleay also exhibited a section of a branch of an Orange 

 Tree, completely perforated by the larva of a longicorn beetle. Also 

 three specimens of a beetle found in the perforated wood. The 

 exhibit had been sent by Mr. M. de Meyrick, a Member of the 

 Society, who stated that many Orange trees had suffered in the 

 same way in the neighbourhood of Peni'ith. Mr. Macleay said 

 the injury was caused by the larva of MonoJimmmts Jistulator, 

 a grub destructive to all kinds of fruit trees, but as far as his expe- 

 rience went its ravages were confined to old or decaying trees, and 



