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Mr. Macleay announced his having received a letter from the 

 Vice-President, the Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, from Singapore, 

 who, he was glad to inform the meeting, was in good health, and 

 enjoying his trip very much. He had travelled all through Java, 

 and inspected some of its active Volcanoes, had visited two places 

 in Sumatra, and was preparing for an Elephant expedition into 

 the interior of the Malacca peninsula. 



Mr. Macleay also stated that he had been informed by Professor 

 McCoy, that the large shark captured at Portland, Victoria, and 

 which had been spoken of at last month's meeting of the Society, 

 was the Selache maxima, or Basking Shark of the Arctic Seas, 

 and that the dimensions had been correctly reported. Mr. Macleay 

 added that this is the first specimen of the Fish recorded from the 

 Southern Hemisphere. 



Dr. Cox exhibited the skull of a common rabbit which had been 

 sent to him by the rabbit inspector of the district on the Darling 

 River between Hay and Wilcannia. In this skull the incisor 

 teeth of both jaws were enormously elongate ; the upper pair 

 being over f inch in length, curving downwards and outwards ; 

 the lower, \\ inch long, in the normal direction. Professor 

 Stephens pointed out that similar overgrowths were common in all 

 rodents, when one or more incisors had been lost ; but that in 

 this case the abnormal divarication of the upper pair, had led to 

 the continued growth of all four teeth, since they could not meet 

 so as to wear each other down. 



Dr. Cox also exhibited some portions of large Encrinite stems 

 from Camboon, Dawson River, Queensland ; and two numbers of 

 the Forest Flora of South Australia, by J. E. Brown, F.L.S. 



Mr. Morton exhibited a fine collection of Australian Annelids 

 and Soft Mollusks beautifully mounted on white and blue glass 

 slides. 



He also exhibited the following weapons, &c, from the South 

 Sea Islands : — 1. A spear from the Solomon Islands, having the 

 head made from a human tibia. 2. Another spear from the same 

 place, inlaid with small pieces of shell. 3. A staff or wooden 



