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have been lately added to the collections — namely, the Equine 

 Deer, from Borneo ; some Kit Foxes and a Red Fox, from North 

 America; a Black-backed Jackal and a young Chacma Baboon, 

 from Africa ; a wild Burrhel Sheep, from Northern India ; a pair of 

 Curassows, from North America ; a Great-headed Maleo, from the 

 Celebes ; a Lovvan or Mallee Hen and two Brush Turkeys, from 

 Queensland. A pair of Black Swans were nesting at the begin- 

 ning of last month. — D. Le S. 



At a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, held 16th 

 June, the Hon. Lord M'Laren, vice-president, in the chair, a 

 paper was read on a " List of West Australian Birds, showing 

 their geographical distribution throughout Australia, including 

 Tasmania," by Mr. A. J. Campbell, F.L.S., Melbourne, com- 

 municated by the Rev. Dr. M'Gregor. We learn that the paper 

 was much appreciated, and will probably appear in the transactions 

 of the society. 



A Hay journal reports : — " No sooner does one plague dis- 

 appear than another takes its place. We have had our drought, 

 our caterpillars, and our grasshoppers. Now it seems Riverina is 

 to be overrun by frogs. At one station near Hay they may be 

 counted by thousands, and are making great havoc on the young 

 grass." 



Australian Trees in France. — The Paris correspondent of 

 the Chemist and Druggist (London) in a recent issue says that 

 slips and seedlings of the Acacia dealbata (Silver Wattle) and 

 Eucalyptus viminalis from Australia have been successfully grown 

 at Antibes, near the Mediterranean, and now begin to yield their 

 peculiar gums. Specimens of gums, kino and acacia., recently 

 examined by Professors Heckel and Schlagdenhaufen, of the 

 Nancy College of Pharmacy, have proved to be in every respect 

 similar to the foreign products, the acacia especially being found 

 entirely soluble, very transparent, and strongly adhesive. 



A fisherman named Carstairs (says the Standard) one morning 

 called at the Customs department and stated that he and his 

 party left the Gippsland Lakes a week or two back, intending to 

 fish off the Ninety-Mile Beach. The weather proving rough, how- 

 ever, they ran for Kent's Group, in Bass's Straits, and there they 

 were so successful that they propose to obtain a properly-appointed 

 steamer and bring their fish right into market. The principal fish 

 caught on this trip were trevalla, mackerel, and salmon trout, but 

 it is thought that with proper tackle even better results will 

 be obtained. Messrs. Carstairs and Co. propose to ask the 

 Commissioner to renew the offer of a bounty for deep sea 

 fishing 



