EXHIBITS. Sy) 
EXE BITS; 
(1.) Mr. F. M. Bailey exhibited some recent botanical acquisi- 
tions. ‘These included plants forwarded by Mr. H. L. Griffith 
from Mackay, the more interesting of which were “xfada scandens 
—the Match-box Bean—of which foliage flowers and fruit had 
been transmitted, and a species of Cordza. 
(2.) The Chairman (Mr. A. Norton, M.L.A.) exhibited the 
following mineral specimens :—(1) Massive oxide of tin in a 
matrix of white mica from the Barrier Range ; (2) Hematite from 
Cloncurry, being a pseudomorph—twined cubes—after pyrites ; 
(3) Micaceous and specular iron-ore from Cloncurry; (4) Auri- 
ferous copper ores, containing a mixture of red oxide, ptile ore, 
green carbonates and iron, also from Cloncurry ; (5) Gold-bearing 
ferruginous quartz and quartzite showing gold, the former from the 
Federation and the latter from the Great Eastern claim, Croydon. 
Mr. E. B. Lindon, after directing attention to the most in- 
teresting features presented by these exhibits, gave an interesting 
resumé of the chief mining developments and discoveries which 
had occurred in Queensland during 1887. 
