28 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 
Uses.—Valuable for fixing drift sand. 
C. suberosa, Otto & Dietrich, He-Oak, Swamp or Marsh-Oak. 
Distributed Tasmania. The flowering time of the casuarimez 
requires further observation. 
Erratum.—On Page 186 of Vol. I., the heading Droseracee should pre- 
cede the paragraph which it follows. 
NOTES. 
NOTE BY T. A. FORBES-LEITH CONCERNING HIS 
PAPER ON THE PETREL FAMILY. 
In the latter part of the paper I read before the Club in March 
last, on the Petrel family, I mentioned that when rounding Cape 
Horn in the barque ‘“‘ Surge,” we were driven far beyond 60° south, 
and got in amongst the ice, and that on the 12th of August, 1853, 
I discovered and shot some specimens of what I believed to be a 
bird new to science, viz., a snow-white petrel, about the size of a 
pigeon, with pink eyes, and that I had never seen it since in any 
museum or private collection. But I omitted to mention that I had 
once heard of it, nearly 25 years after, when the captain of the ship 
““George Thompson,” gave me a picture of his ship in a most 
perilous position in icebergs ; which happened some years before, 
when the said ship was driven far to the southard, and hemmed in 
by gigantic icebergs (some over 500 feet high) for over a week, 
and all hope of being saved givea up. In the foot note it says, 
“here thousands of pure white petrel were seen.” 
I believe if the proposed expedition towards the South Pole for 
scientific research takes place, when the ice is reached my snow- 
white Petrel will again be seen, and my description of it be found 
pretty accurate. 
ASTRORHIZA ANGULOSA, (Brady.) 
Tus is the name of a Foraminifer which was taken in dredging on the 
east of Azores, at a thousand :fathoms, by the ‘“‘ Challenger” expedition; 
a single specimen was also taken by the “ Porcupine” expedition. 
It has recently been found by Mr. H. Watts, a member of F. N. 
Club, in miocene deposits at Waurn ponds. It is stated that this 
is the first time that this foraminifer has been found in a fossil 
condition. 
