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Fig. 5. — Extremity of one of the posterior pereiopods of the same. 



Fig. 6. — Upper antenna of Haliophasma imrpurtum. 



Fig. 7. — Lower antenna of the same. 



Fig. 8. — Upper antenna of Paranthura a-asfiico7-nis. 



Fig. 9. — Lower antennae of the same. 



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E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., &c., exhibited a Throwing Stone, used 

 in warfare by the natives of Futuna, New Hebrides, which had 

 been presented to the Australian Museum by Captain Geo. Braith- 

 waite of the Dayspring. The stone was a cylindrical weapon, 

 about two feet and a half long, and two inches in diameter, and had 

 been cut out of a solid block of coral. Mr. Ramsay pointed out 

 that the natives of Futuna were compelled to resort to coral for 

 their weapons, as there were no stones or rocks on that island. 



Mr. J. G. Griffin, C.E., exhibited some Oyster Shells, obtained 

 from the cutting (adjacent to the Yarra River) now being made by 

 the Melbourne Harbour Trust for improving the water approacli to 

 that city. These were taken at a depth of about 30 to 40ft. He 

 also exhibited oyster and other shells, from the shaft of the 

 Maryville Colliery, at Newcastle, about 40ft. from the surface. 

 Mr. Brazier said the oyster-shells from the neighbourhood of 

 Melbourne were identical with those of England, and are named 

 Ostrea edulis, while those from Maryville, were 0. glomerata 

 var. 0. suh-trigona of this colony. 



Mr. Trebeck exhibited two samples of wool grown from the 

 same ram in Victoria and in Mudgee. The longer sample, grown 

 under high culture at Ercildoune, is nearly five inches long, and 

 has every good quality for which the Victorian combing wool is 

 celebrated ; the shorter sample is of the same time of growth on the 

 natural pastures of Mudgee, and is only about 1^ inches long. 

 Irrespective of the marked difference in length, the quality of that 

 grown on the natural pastures of Mudgee appears to be ^ery much 

 inferior in many points. This is unaccountable, as the Mudgee 

 district is well known to produce merino wools of the highest 

 quality. 



