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the oviduct by Mr. McLennan. The egg is nearly perfectly oval, being only 

 slightly pointed at the thin end, white, and without any gloss; length l-Sö 

 X 1-25 inches. — Mr. Palmer exhibited six silk egg-bags made by the 

 same spider (species uncertain) at diflferent times, and attached to a branch. 

 — Mr. Masters exhibited a living specimen of one of the »Sleeping Lizards« 

 Cijclodus nigro-hiteus, Q. and G., sent by Mr. J. D. Cox from Mt. Wilson — 

 a species which is rare so far north, though common in Victoria and Tas- 

 mania. — Mr. Steel exhibited a specimen oî Bombyx from Fiji, quite over- 

 grown by a fungus^ springing from all parts of the body. — Mr. Ogilby 

 exhibited a living example of a rare Toad, Noiade?i Benettii, Günth., recently 

 forwarded from Cobar to the Australian Museum. Also an examj^le of the 

 rare snake Brachytirophis australis, Krefft, hitherto only recorded from the 

 Clarence and Burdekin Rivers. The locality of the present specimen is un- 

 known. — Mr. Fletcher exhibited for Mr. A. G. Hamilton, of Gunta- 

 wang, a large and remarkable frog, at present undetermined, recently cap- 

 tured by his son Charles, at Hartley, Blue Mountains, where it was found 

 buried in the sand in the bed of a creek. It dififers from any Australian frog 

 at present described, by having a row of spines on the dorsal surface of each 

 of the first three fingers, the seventh and last spine on the first finger of each 

 hand being conspicuously larger and more formidable than the others. 



3. Gesuch. 



Dr. R. Köhler in Nancy (Faculté des Sciences) Aviinscht einige 

 Alkohol-Exemplare zu anatomischen Untersuchungen von Farodoxites 

 und EchinorhyncJiUS rose^^s Diesing, von Lindemann hei Strix passe- 

 rina und Leuciscus entdeckt und im Bulletin de la Soc. Impér. des 

 Naturalistes de Moscou, Vol. 88, 1865. p. 484 beschrieben. 



lY. Personal-Notizen. 



Bonn. Prof. Hubert Ludwig ist von Gießen als Nachfolger R. Hert- 

 wig's nach Bonn berufen worden. Assistent am zoologischen Institut in 

 Bonn ist Dr. Walter Voigt geworden, bisher in Würzburg. 



Bremen. Zum Director der städtischen Sammlungen für Naturge- 

 schichte und Ethnographie ist Dr. H. Schauinsland, bisher Privatdocent 

 in München, gewählt worden. 



Gießen. An Stelle Prof. Ludwig's ist Dr. J. G. Spengel, bisher 

 Director der naturwissenschaftlichen Sammlungen in Bremen, als Professor 

 der Zoologie nach Gießen berufen worden. 



Würzburg. An Stelle Dr. W. Vo igt's ist Dr. Franz Stuhlmann 

 Assistent am zoologisch-zootomischen Institut in Würzburg geworden. 



Necrolog. 



Am 20. Mai starb in Freiburg i/Br. Professor Alexander Ecker, der 

 Anatom und Anthropolog. 



Druck von ßreitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



