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acquaintance with them, we feel ready to exclaim, with 

 Prof. Edward Forbes, " Truly the skill of the Great Architect 

 of Nature is not less displayed in the construction of a sea- 

 urchin than in the building up of a world ! " 



In ilhistration of the above paper, the following preparations were 

 shown under the microscope : — 



(a) Trans, sect, of spine of Echinus sphcera. 



(b) II II M Flemingii. 



(c) II II Heterocentrotus mamillatus. 



(d) II II Acrocladia hastifera. 



(e) Sfiines of Spatancjus pturpureus. 

 (/) Pedicellarise of Echinus Flemingii. 

 (g) II It sphara. 

 (h) Sphseridia of „ „ 



(i) Ambulacrum and suctorial disc of Echinus Flemingii. 

 (k) Plates from suctorial disc of n n 



(l) Plates from ambulacral zone of m sphcera. 



(m) Plutei of an echinus, eleven days old. 



VII. — THE KAUBIE PINE {DAMMARA AUSTRALIS). 



By Mr HUGH FRASER. 



{Read Feb. 26, 1890.) 



This genus forms one of the large group of trees and shrubs 

 which are scientifically classed in the order ConiferaB, the 

 members of which are found distributed over every region of 

 the world. The four or five species with their varieties at 

 present known to botanists are exclusively confined to the 

 Southern Hemisphere, and representatives are found in several 

 of the East Indian islands, JSTew Guinea, and ISTew Zealand. 

 They are all lofty evergreen trees, more or less valued for their 

 timber, and for the useful gums which all the species produce 

 in singular abundance, and which form important articles of 

 commerce. The generic name is that applied by the natives 

 of Amboyna, and adopted on the introduction of Dammara 



