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NATURAL HISTORY NOTE. 



Ml". J. A. Ki'ishaw, F.E.S., mentioned that tin- National 

 Museum, Melboiunc, had recently received a line female of 

 the Tasmanian Devil, Sarcophilus ursinns, Harris, from the 

 Nortli-West Coast of Tasmania, which carried fom* well- 

 develojied young in the pouch. These were quite blind, and 

 varied in total length of head and body from 150-157 mm. ; 

 tail, 45-49 mm. ; fiind foot, 23-25 mm. All four were females, 

 with four distinct mammje in each. The head, body, and tail, 

 except the rump and base of tail, were well furnished with 

 black hair, the rump being very sparsely covered with pale 

 liair. The body markings which are white in the adult were 

 of a creamy white in the young, and, as in the adult, were 

 variable in their distriliution, the chest markings being present 

 in all, while two showed a spot behind tlie elliow, the rum]") 

 marking being entirely absent in one sjiecimen and more or 

 less defined in the other three. 



EXHIBITS. 



The evening was set aside for ex]ii])ils under microscopes, 

 the following being the ]:)nncii)al exhibitors, with tlie objects 

 shown : — 



By Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S. — A thin slice of i"»hosphatized 

 oolitic limestone, from Ocean Island, South Pacific Ocean. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S. — Slides of various forms of leaf 

 vestiture ; various stomata ; section showing haustoria of 

 European Dodder, Cusaita epithemium, penetrating stem of 

 clover ; section showing i")enetration of branch of Australian 

 Dodder-Laurel, Cassytha melantha, by liaustoria of another 

 portion of same branch (for descrii")tion see Proc. A list. Assoc. 

 Science, Melbourne, IQ13, page 321). 



By Mr. J. Searle. — Volvox, coi^ejioda. and cladoura of 

 various species and a numl)er of rotifera. 



By Mr. J. Stickland. — Thuricola opcrciilti/a. froni I^xilanic 

 Gardens. 



By Mr. J. Twyford. — Leaf of Deutzia gracilis (?), showing 



stellate hairs, under po]ari/{>d light ; also jialates of molluscs. 



By Mr. A. L. Scott. — Marine alg.-e. with diatoms, from 

 Sorrento ; cat's-eye crocidolite ; dacite from Marysville ; basalt 

 from Tasmania ; oblique section of h(un of rhinoceros ; section 

 of stem of nettle ; also viewing screen used in Paget colour 

 process, also literature dealing with same. 



By Mr. J. Wilcox. — Tube-building rotifer. Melicer/a rinf^ens. 



The following exhibits were also made : — 



By Mr. G. Coghill. — Flowering specimens of Acacia linearis. 



