1096 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Ogilby exhibited a specimen of a deep-sea fish (Ghloroph- 

 thalmus nigripinnis), originally described by Dr. Giinther in the 

 Ann. of Nat. Hist., 1878, and figured in Vol. XXII. of the 

 " Challenger Reports." The original specimens were taken by the 

 "Challenger" naturalists off" Twofold Bay, in 120 fathoms; the 

 specimen exhibited to-night, was captured, a few days ago, off 

 Port Jackson in 70 fathoms, the only other occasion on which 

 the species has been met with since its discovery. 



Mr. Ogilby also exhibited a photograph of Acanthias Blainvillil, 

 not hitherto recorded from New South Wales, and one of a variety 

 of Acanthoclinus littoreus, originally described by Forster in 

 Cook's Voyage, the former having been taken in deep water off 

 Port Jackson, the latter under stones between tide marks at Lord 

 Howe Island. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited a spherical stone about \ inch in diameter, 

 found in the crop of a Goura pigeon {G. Alhertisi, Salvad.), from, 

 Hall Sound, New Guinea. Also a tube of fresh-water shells 

 (Segmentina australiensis, E. A. Smith) from Waterloo Swamps. 



Mr. MacDonnell showed under the microscope an interesting 

 exhibit of Rotifers {Megalotrocha sp.), living in clusters on pond 

 weed. 



Mr. Burnell exhibited two living Slow-worms {Typhlops nigres- 

 cens) from Wentworthville near Parramatta, 



Mr. Deane exhibited a remarkable excrescence on a root of 

 Monotoca eUiptica, found by Mr. J. F. Fitzhardinge in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Sydney ; a specimen of an apodal lizard {Delma 

 impar) found by Mr. C. F. Price of Arable, near Cooma, where 

 the species is said to be abundant in basaltic country ; and 

 examples of nodular masses enclosing fossils, occurring abundantly 

 in a slaty rock in a cutting uear Bredbo on the Goulburn to Cooma 

 Railway. 



