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Mr. P. McMahon, J. P., exhibited a fragment of a fossil tree 

 stem from the Coal Measures exposed in the cliffs of the Nobbys, 

 at Newcastle ; also a sample of white wood from Queensland, 

 resembling cedar in texture and of remarkable lightness. 



The President exhibited some fine specimens of fossiliferous 

 limestone from the Tertiary formation at Aldinga, South Australia, 

 and samples of diamond drill cores containing cretaceous fossils 

 from the Government bore at Hergott, South Australia, where 

 artesian water was struck at a depth of 334 feet, which rises 40 feet 

 above the surface. He also exhibited a curious shoe which was 

 obtained by Mr. H. G. L. Brown from some natives in Central 

 Australia : it is made of emu's feathers and human hair, and is 

 said to be worn by the natives to prevent their footprints being 

 detected. 



Mr. Macleay exhibited a lizard sent for exhibition by the 

 Rev. J. Milne Curran, from Dubbo. He captured it on account 

 of its singular mode of progression, havirig observed it run for six 

 yards in an erect posture with the fore legs quite off the ground. 

 The lizard was of the genus Grammatophorus, of which there are 

 several species in the country, all of them much given to playing 

 and gambolling on sunny days, but the peculiar mode of progression 

 mentioned by Mr. Curran had not been observed by any of those 

 present. 



Mr. Masters exhibited a specimen of Ibacus antarcticus which 

 had been taken lately at Newcastle, and presented by Dr. Cox to 

 the Macleay Museum. He stated that it was, he believed, the 

 largest specimen of that very rare crustacean that had been found 

 in Australian seas. 



Mr. Trebeck exhibited two samples of wool grown on the same 

 sheep. The first, grown in Victoria in 1879, was fully four inches 

 long, and showing every good quality of the highest type of combing 

 wool. The second, grown this year on the east side of the 

 Liverpool Range, was scarcely 1\ inches long, and approached 

 in character the early Mudgee wools of Silesian type. In 

 the first specimen, the normal black tip of the old Merino had 

 disappeared under the influence of Victorian cultivation, but 



