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On behalf of Mr. F. M. Bailey, Government Botanist of 

 Queensland, the Secretary exhibited an interesting collection of 

 botanical specimens specially brought together to illustrate the 

 plants of Queensland which are known to possess active or 

 medicinal properties. A s such it might be considered to illustrate 

 a later edition of the knowledge summarised in a paper by the 

 exhibitor " On the Medicinal Plants of Queensland " in the 

 Society's Proceedings for 1880 ; Vol. v. First Series, p. 4). 



On behalf of Dr. Broom, the Secretary exhibited specimens 

 illustrative of the fossil Marsupials from a bone-breccia deposit 

 near the Wombeyan Caves, described at the Meeting of April 

 29th, 1896. 



Mrs. Kenyon sent for exhibition, and contributed a note upon, 

 .specimens of varietal forms of Cypriea. 



Mr. Darley exhibited a specimen of rock from Newcastle bored 

 by specimens of Pholas, with examples of the molluscs in situ. 

 Also from the roof of a building in Sydney a piece of sheet-lead 

 which had been perforated by Termites. 



Mr. Steel showed an elegant fungus, probably Polyporus 

 portentosus, Berk., from Bundanoon. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited drawings and specimens of the larva, 

 pupa, moth, and bag-shelters of Teara cotitraria from Penshurst, 

 near Sydney; in this locality during April many trees of Acacia 

 ]jrominens were completely defoliated by the caterpillars, the 

 shelters being placed at the foot of the trees. Also the more 

 substantial silken shelter of a species from Kalgoorlie, W.A.;and 

 a series of specimens of the commoner species of the genus 

 occurring in ISTew South Wales. 



The President exhibited a rare and remarkable spider, 

 Actinojyus sp., forwarded by Mr. A. G. Little, Railway Surveyor, 

 Menindie, N.S.W. This is apparently the first recorded occurrence 

 of the genus in Australia. In respect of the length of the palpi 

 and the shortness of the abdomen it appears to come nearest to 

 A. longijKilpus from Brazil. 



