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300 copies have been printed, and the stones effaced, for as it is a work 

 of reference chiefly, the number of copies has been limited to the esti- 

 mated utmost demand. Its chief utility will be as a means of comparison, 

 available in Australia and Tasmania, to the coming generation of 

 colonial investigators of the Natural History and Geology of those 

 countries ; and to know that a copy was in the library of every public 

 institution, where it might be accessible to such, would be the most 

 gratifying return to the author. 



Notice having been taken of the rare Ribbon fish recently caught on 

 the North Coast, at Penguin Creek, the Secretary mentioned that Mr. 

 Morton Allport, after a careful comparison of it with Dr. Glinther's 

 description of Regalecus glacUus, had no doubt it was the same species. 

 A similar fish had been washed on shore at Circular Head in 1856, and 

 a drawing of it presented to the Museum by Dr. W. Story. 



Mr. E. D. Swan observed that Professor McCoy had determined the 

 specimen to be a closely allied species, the Regalecus Banksii. A sketch 

 of the fish (which measured 14 feet in length and about one foot in depth), 

 by Mr. R. M. Johnston, and drawings from other sources of the allied 

 Ribbon fishes of the Mediterranean, were laid on the table. 



Conversational discussion, in which Mr. Grant, Mr. E. D. Swan, and 

 Mr. E. J. Crouch took part, ensued as to presentations Nos. 1 and 4, 

 and on other subjects. 



A vote of thanks, proposed by Mr. Hopton Scott, to the donors of 

 presentations closed the proceedings. 



