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the animal. After injecting sti-ychnine into a rat, the rat 

 recovered from snake-bite, hut afterwards it died from the 

 effects of the strychnine. 



Dr. Barrett said that in the Medical Journal for 187(5 

 would be found a collection of replies to a circular issued by 

 Dr. McCrae to medical men. He got a return of 253 cases 

 of .snake-bite, and 10 per cent, had died without any 

 treatment. It was interesting to note that Australian 

 snakes ejected only a small quantity of poison, while the 

 Indian snake ejected a very large quantit}^ It was a 

 question whether the doses were in proportion to the size 

 of the animals met with by the snakes. In India of course 

 the animals would be much larger than those met with 

 in Australia. He agreed with the opinion expressed by 

 Piofessor Hasweli, that careful experimenting in the labora- 

 tory is the only means of settling the question as to the size 

 of the doses. 



Professor Spencer read some notes on "The Structure of 

 the Poison Fang in certain Australian Snakes." 



Professor Haswell said that he had an opportunity of 

 inspecting Professor Spencer's sections, and there could be 

 no doubt that they proved his deductions. 



A paper b}^ Mr. A. J. Campbell, F.L.S., on "Three Rare 

 Species of Eggs," was then taken as read. 



Dr. Dendy read a paper on a " Synopsis of the Australian 

 Calcarea Heterocoela, with a pi-opused Classification of the 

 Group and Descriptions of some New Genera and Species." 



An exhibition of specimens followed, and the meeting 

 terminated. 



Thursdaij, October VMh. 



Mr. White (Vice-President) m the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Dr. Dendy read the Librarian's Report, which showed 

 that 110 new publications had been added to the Library. 



A paper by Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A., on " Two New Tertiary 

 Stylasterids," was read by Mr. Pritchard. 



Mr. Pritchard considered that the paper was very 

 interesting, on account of its being the first description of 



