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of the Zehinioidea, with critical notes, etc. — Mr. Macleay also exhibited 
for Mr. Wilkinson, a number of Helix-like Shells, wound spirally round 
the leaf-stalks of a species of Eucalyptus, at Branxton, on the Hunter. 
These shells, though calcareous, were pronounced not to be the production 
of any Molluscous animal, and the general opinion was that they must be 
egg cases of some insect. — Mr. Dean exhibited a very perfect specimen 
of a caterpillar fungus (Sphaeria Robertsi) from New Zealand. — A large 
collection of Shells and Echinodermata from Cossack, Western Australia, 
sent by Mr. J. F. Bailey, of Melbourne, for exhibition were on the table. 
Among the rareties were Conus trigonus Reeve, Conus Victoriae Reeve, An- 
cillaria cingulata Sowb., Ancillaria elongata Gray, Oliva Caldania Duclos, 
Spondylus Wrightianus Cross. Mr. Bailey also sent some packets of sand 
and other microscopic material for distribution among the members of the 
Society. — Dr. Cox exhibited a cluster of mud oysters, some of them mea- 
suring seven inches long by six broad, from Eden, Twofold Bay. It was 
unusual to find this kind of oyster attached either to others of its kind as in 
this instance, or to rocks. Formerly this species, judging from the number 
of the shells found in the cooking ovens at the camps of the natives along 
our shores, was very abundant, but is now fast disappearing. Although 
growing in abundance to the south, this oyster is never likely to become a 
marketable commodity, owing to the fact that it will not live beyond twenty- 
four hours out of the water. — Mr. John Brazier exhibited a fine spe- 
cimen of a very rare fossil land shell — Buhmus auris-vulpina from St. 
Helena, which Mr. Ramsay had obtained from the authorities at the Bri- 
tish Museum. — E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S., etc. exhibited on behalf of Mr. 
A. Campbell, of Melbourne, a specimen of Pachycephala rufogularis 
(Gould), in a remarkable rufescent stage of plumage. The whole of the 
head, fore and hind neck, chest, sides, and centre of the abdomen, were of 
a rich rust red, the interscapular region, rump, wing coverts and seconda- 
ries, washed with the same colour. The specimen was shot near Melbourne 
some months ago, in company with another of apparently the same plumage. 
TV. Personal-Notizen. 
London. Als Nachfolger Prof. Flower’s, welcher zum Director des 
Naturhistorischen Museums (British Mus.) in South Kensington ernannt 
worden ist, ist Mr. Charles Stewart zum Conservator des Hunterian Mu- 
seum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields (R. College of Surgeons) gewählt worden. 
Necrolog. 
Am 21. Marz starb Dr. Allen Thomson in London. Am 2. April 
1809 in Edinburg geboren, wurde er 1830 daselbst zum Dr. med. promovirt, 
begann bald darauf Anatomie zu lehren und wurde 1839 Professor der Ana- 
tomie in London (Marischal College). Im Jahre 1841 ging er als Professor 
der Physiologie in Edinburg nach Schottland zurtick und trat 1848 die Pro- 
fessur der Anatomie in Glasgow an, von welcher er sich im Jahre 1877 in 
den Ruhestand nach London zurückzog. 
Druck von Breitkopf & Härte) iu Leipzig. 
