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and Gymnobelideus, and to be in all probability the ancestor of 
both. 
3. Premolars and molars of Pseudochirus antiquus, Broom, an 
extinct Ring-tailed Phalanger. 
4. Lower jaw of Dromicia nana (Desm.), the small Tasmanian 
Dormouse-Phalanger. 
5. Lower and two upper jaws of Phascologale flavipes, Waterh. 
the existing Yellow-footed Pouched-mouse. 
6. Lower jaw of Phascologale penicillata (Shaw), the existing 
Brush-tailed Pouched-mouse. 
Dr. Broom also read a paper entitled “Notes on Some 
Australian Mammals.” (See page 351.) 
Mr. J. Bruce Hunter exhibited some flowering plants from Ben 
Lawers. 
Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., sent some plants from 
Clova for exhibition, including the moss T’etraplodon bryoides, Linn, 
3lst Aucust, 1896. 
Professor Thomas King, President, in the chair. 
Professor T, Kennedy Dalziel, M.B., C.M., Dean of Anderson’s 
College Medical School, and Mr. Thomas 8, Campbell, 85 Gibson 
Street, Hillhead, were elected as Ordinary Members. 
Mr. George M‘Crie sent for exhibition a number of flowering 
plants collected in Norway. 
Mr. William Stewart exhibited Lentinus lepideus, Fr., a rare 
fungus, which had been sent to him by Mr. J. R. Macgregor, 
Paisley, who found it growing on a wall-plate in his dye work. 
This species had only been recorded previously for two Scottish _ 
districts, viz, Tay. and Tweed. The plant exhibited was a: 
remarkably fine specimen, one-half larger. than the dimensions 
given for the’species, as it measured upwards of six inches across 
the pileus, with broad, thin, decurrent, roughly-toothed, and 
sinuate gills, transversely striate. When it reached Mr. Stewart 
it was wholly white, with the exception of a portion of the cap 
which had pressed against some obstruction while growing, and 
at the point of contact it showed a reddish-brown dint, but the 
plant at last turned entirely of a russet colour. The smell was 
