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use bows and arrows but here their only weapon is the sumpitan 

 or blow tube. Their arrows are poisoned with Upas or Ypo 

 (Antiaris toxicaria and other plants) and a wound from them is 

 very fatal. 



" I am starting to morrow for the Krian River and I dare say 

 may be able to communicate something new in my next letter." 



Mr. Henry Deane, M.A., exhibited a large and curiously formed 

 gall found on a gum tree (Eucalyptus resinifera ?) . It was the 

 production of one of the gall making Coccidse, and resembled 

 closely the gall of the female of Bracliyscelis duplex, described and 

 figured by H. L. Schrader in the first volume of the Transactions 

 of the Entomological Society of New South Wales. 



The Chairman said that he wished to call the special attention 

 of the Society to the magnificent addition to the library just 

 received from Belgium. About 600 books and pamphlets on 

 scientific subjects arrived by the " Cuzco " last week, sent by the 

 Royal Malacological Society of Belgium. For many of tliem the 

 Society was indebted to the several Societies whose publications 

 they are, and to these thanks have been duly sent, and in most 

 cases it is to be hoped that a constant interchange of publications 

 will be kept up ; but the action of M. Lefevre in the matter 

 calls for especial notice. That gentleman immediately on receiving 

 the circular announcing the Society's loss in the disastrous fire at 

 the Garden Palace, wrote on behalf of his Society, not only 

 expressing the kindest sympathy, but also announcing that he 

 would collect for this Society all the Scientific Belgian publications 

 which he could get. He thought the Society should mark in 

 some special way its gratitude and approval. 



It was resolved that the thanks of the meeting should be 

 conveyed to M. Lefevre by the President of the Society. 



