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them in producing rain. The President exhibited one of the »rain-stones« 
which had been secured by Mr. Slee, who witnessed the ceremony when 
performed two years ago by the Mount Poole and Mokley tribes. — 6. On 
the Brain of Greys Whale (Kogia Grey). By William A. Haswell, M.A., 
B.Sc. The obtaining by the Australian Museum of a fresh specimen of 
Greys Whale in which the jaws had become too much splintered to allow of 
a complete skeleton being prepared, afforded the writer the opportunity of 
examining the brain, of which he gave a very full description with measure- 
ments. For comparison he had the brain of only one other species, viz., 
that of the species of De/phinus, common on the New South Wales coast. — 
7. On a New Genus of Fishes from Port Jackson. By Wm. Macleay, 
F.L.S., etc. This paper consists of the description of a large fish taken a 
few days ago in a seine net at Watson’s Bay. It is of the family Cirrhitidae, 
and somewhat allied to the genus Chilodactylus. The generic name given to 
it is Psilocranium, from its naked head, and the specific name Cox, in ho- 
nour of the President of the Commissioners for Fisheries of New South 
Wales. This fish was exhibited by Mr. Morton, Assistant Curator Austra- 
lian Museum. — Dr. Cox exhibited a specimen of Conus nodulosus. He 
stated that an unique specimen was possessed by Mr. Taylor, from whose 
collection it was first described by Sowerby, in 1865, which was said to have 
come from Australia. Hitherto no second specimen had been recorded from 
Australia, but the one now exhibited had been sent to him by Mr. Flateau, 
of Melbourne, with a number of West Australian shells, to be named, and 
he concluded from that circumstance that it also had come from that lo- 
cality. Dr. Cox also exhibited a specimen of Conus abbas, a rare species 
from West Australia. Also a rare form of Cypraea Lynx of Linn. This 
rare form differs from those abnormal forms found in New Caledonia by 
having the marginal callus as a thick opaque cream-coloured layer reflected 
over the whole dorsal surface of the shell except at the median line. The 
base of the shell was not thickened and opalized as in the New Caledonian 
specimens. — Dr. Cox also exhibited some remarkable forms of deformed 
eggs from the common hen. One of these measured over two inches long, 
of a conical form, and bent towards one end. These specimens were all the 
property of Mr. Flateau. Also three cocoons of a large silkworm of the genus 
Attacus, and a gall of a Coccus, obtained at the North Shore, which had been 
sent to Dr. Cox by Mr. William Hemming. — Mr. Brazier exhibited on 
behalf of Mr. J.F. Bailey, of Melbourne — specimens of Voluta maculata 
nearly all white, Voluta vola four inches long, Cypraea eximia, Sowerby, 
from Eocene beds, Port Phillip; Cypraea, a new species also fossil, a fine 
specimen of Cornelian from Basalt in the bed of the Yarra River; and a 
number of fossil Micro-Bryozoa from the Gippsland Lakes, which he placed 
at the disposal of the Members. — Mr. Haswell exhibited a beautifully 
prepared skeleton of the Port Jackson Shark, prepared by Mr. H. Barnes of 
the Museum, according to a process recently invented by Prof. S. Jeffrey 
Parker, of Dunedin. — The Hon. James Norton exhibited the nest of 
Origma rubricata from Springwood, which was detached from a flat horizontal 
sandstone rock from which it was suspended by its upper portion worked 
by the bird into a kind of string, and evidently wedged into a small semi- 
detached flake of the rock. 
Druck vou Breitkopf & Hartel in Leipzig. 
