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box on a carpenter's bench, 11ioli!^Ii the I'eiich was constantly 

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EXUIHITS. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Fhjwering specimens of Potato 

 Orchid, Gastrodia sesamoides, from Tourist Track, near Menzies 

 Creek, Dandenong Ranges. 



By Mr. Chas. Barrett. — Caddis-fly cases built of different 

 aquatic plants ; photographs of axolotl, water-bug, &c., by 

 Mr. H. M. Hale, South Australian Museum. "^ 



By Miss C. C. Currie. — ;Collection of peat-loving plants from 

 Lardner, Gippsland, including Utricitlaria dichotoma and U. 

 lateriflora, Drosera hinata, D. pygmcBa, the orchids Prasophyllum 

 intricatum, P. album, P. australe, Microtis porrifolia, and 

 Burnettia ctineata (in fruit) ; also the ferns Schizcea bifida and 

 Gleichenia circinata. 



By Mr. F. Cudmore. — Ribbon slate (Lower Cambrian) from 

 Tapley Hill quarry, near Adelaide, S.A. ; glacial conglomerate 

 (Lower Cambrian) from Gre}^ Spur, Inman Valley, about nine 

 miles from Victor Harbour. The Grey Spur rocks form a 

 scarp 150 feet high, resting unconformably on Pre-Cambrian 

 rocks on the eastern side of the valley. This valley was 

 subjected to glaciation in Permo-Carboniferous times, when 

 Selwyn's Rock was striated. 



By Mr. J. E. Dixon.— Fifty-two species of coleoptera from 

 Lake Hattah district, N.W. Victoria. 



By Miss M. T. Johnson. — Flowering specimens of Blandfordia 

 flammea, Christmas Bells, and CeratopetaUim gitmmifermn, 

 Christmas Bush, from Sydney, N.S.W. 



By Mr. F. Keep. — Flowering branches of Leptospermiim 

 scoparium, variety with weeping habit, and flowering' in 

 summer ; also flowers of Eucalyptus pyriforjnis, the Pear-fruited 

 Gum of Western Australia — both grown at Canterbury. 



By Mr. C. Oke. — Micro-coleoptera collected at Belgrave 

 excursion, including three specimens of two species of Chlamy- 

 dopsis — the beetles belonging to this genus inhabit ants' nests 

 and are extremely rare and difftcult to secure. 



By Mr. E. E. Pescott, F.L.S.— Christmas Bells, Blandfordia 

 grandi flora, from Port Stephen, N.S.W. 



By Dr. C. S. Sutton. — Skins of opossums, Trichosurus 

 viilpecula and T. fiiliginosus, from Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, 

 in illustration of paper by Messrs. Weindorfer and Francis. 



By Mr. J. Stickland. — Leaves of Maidenhair Tree (Ginkgo), 

 from Fitzroy Gardens. 



By Mr. L. Thorn. — Marine shells, Cynatium spengleri and 

 Haliolis nervosa, also seaweeds, from Phillip Island and Flinders ; 

 larvae in various stages of the Wood White Butterfly, Delias 

 aganippe, Don, with pupa.^ and perfect insect. 



