BY C. W. DE VIS, MIA. 39 
OBJECTS EXHIBITED. 
Samples of a cobalt ore, which had been found in quantity by 
Mr. F. Smith, at Kilkivan, and which Mr. De Vis remarked 
represented a ‘‘ wad” or variable mixtures of the oxides of 
manganese, iron, and cobalt; the last-mentioned element being 
present, in selected specimens, to the extent of 22 per cent 
The head of a buffalo, which had been presented to the 
Queensland Museum by Mr. H. Glissan, as being that of an 
animal which, after having roamed all the way from Port 
Darwin, during which journey it travelled from one herd of 
cattle to another, had been shot near Townsville. 
A well-preserved incisor of Sceparnodon, from the fossiliferous 
drifts of the Darling Downs, which presented all the characters 
which were associated in a similar object which Professor Owen, 
under the name of S. Ramsayi, had recently referred to a tapir- 
like marsupial possessing persistent rodent teeth. 
Dr. Bancroft exhibited the following interesting objects 
derived from his own and from the public gardens of the city, 
and including plants which he had been instrumental in intro- 
ducing into the colony, Tubers of Cyperus esculentus, the 
amande de terre of the south of Kurope, which in its manner of 
growth resembled the nut-grass CU. rotundus. (Dr. Bancroft 
at the same time remarked that the small bulbs, which he had 
previously referred to as forming an article of diet amongst the 
blacks of the interior, and which were known as Yowa, had 
proved, on cultivation, to belong to a Cyperus allied to this 
C. esculentus.) An aquatic sedge, Hleocharis, sp., as also afford- 
ing a food substance. The farinaceus fruit of the lacustrine 
plant Trapa bicornis, the ling of the Chinese. Fruit of the 
candle-nut tree, Alewrites moluccana, as an article of food, and 
as a source of oil valuable for many purposes. The sweet 
succulent peduncles of Hovenia elatus, a Chinese fruit. Male 
and female inflorescence, and also seed pods of the Carob tree, 
Ceratonia siliqua, in illustration of its dicecius character. Papaw 
