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bird and remaining portions of the egg-shell which I exhibit here to-night 

 have been presented by Mrs. Walker to the trustees of the Australian Mu- 

 seum. The female is now sitting on six eggs, and five others have been 

 placed in an incubator ; the last egg laid is of a deep bluishgreen, perfectly 

 smooth and free from granulation". — Mr. O g il by exhibited a very hand- 

 some Lizard [Lygosoma — Hoynolepida — casnarinae, D. & B.) from Went- 

 worth Falls, and remarked that it was the largest species of the genus, ex- 

 ceeding even Lygosoma — Hinulia — Lesueuri in size ; also that he considers 

 it a scarce species ; 2) a young specimen of Hoplocephalus ornatus, De Vis ; 

 3) Holocanthiis tibicen, C. V., a fish new to the Australian fauna, and appa- 

 rently scarce everywhere, recently brought from Lord Howe Island by the 

 Visiting Magistrate, Mr. Icely; Mr. Ogilby further remarked that in the small 

 collection brought by that gentleman no less than seven species are hitherto 

 unrecorded from the island, namely Holocanthiis tibicen, Chironeinns marmo- 

 ratus, Trachynolus Riisselli, Brama rayi, Pegasus draco, Crtsticeps australis, and 

 an Ophichthys. — Mr. Skuse exhibited specimens of a minute Dipterous fly, 

 Phytomyza (sp. n.), bred from the leaf of Clematis aristata, obtained in the 

 beginning of the present month by Mr. J. J. Fletcher. The larvae make long 

 irregular white galleries beneath the upper cuticle of the leaf, where they 

 iindergo their metamorphoses. — Mr. Brazier exhibited the Mollusca 

 trawled by Mr. Smithers off Merimbula, and Crassatella pulchra, Reeve, found 

 by Mr. E. Richards, of Ballina, Richmond River. 



IV. Personal-Notizen. 



1. Clark University, Worcester, Mass. U. S. A. 



Morphology. 



Professor Dr. C. O. "Whitman. 

 Decent Dr. J. Play fair McMurrich. 

 Fellow H. C. Bump us. 



Physiology. 

 Ass*^. Professor Dr. Warren P. Lombard, 



Neurology. 



Ass*. Professor Dr. Henry H. Donaldson. 

 Fellow Dr. C F. Hodge. 



Anatomy. 



Adjunct Professor Dr. Franklin P, Mall. 

 Fellow Dr. F, Tuck er m an. 



Dnick von Breitkopf k Hârtel in Leipzig. 



