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exhibition by the Rev. J. Milne Curran, from Dubbo. He captured it on 
account of its singular mode of progression, having observed it run for six 
yards in an erect posture with the fore legs quite off the ground. The lizard 
was of the genus Grammatophorus, of which there are several species in the 
country, all of them much given to playing and gambolling on sunny days, 
but the peculiar mode of progression mentioned by Mr. Curran had not been 
observed by any of those present. — Mr. Masters exhibited a specimen 
of Ibacus antarcticus which had been taken lately at Newcastle, and presented 
by Dr. Cox to the Macleay Museum. He stated that it was, he believed, the 
largest specimen of that very rare crustacean that had been found in Austra- 
lian seas. — Mr. Trebeck exhibited two samples of wool grown on the 
same sheep. The first, grown in Victoria in 1879, was fully four inches 
long, and showing every good quality of the highest type of combing wool. 
The second, grown this year on the east side of the Liverpool Range, was 
scarcely 11/, inches long, and approached in character the early Mudgee 
wools of Silesian type. In the first specimen, the normal black tip of the 
old Merino had dissapeared under the influence of Victorian cultivation, but 
after a period of growth in New South Wales, the wool of the same ram 
reverted to the original type of the pure Merino. The contrast between the 
two samples was due simply to the effects produced by the differences in the 
climate, soil, and culture. — Dr. von Lendenfeld exhibited a specimen 
of Haliphysema suberites, nov. spec., obtained from Macrocystis in Port 
Jackson. This Æaliphysema is in appearance somewhat similar to 7. ramu- 
losa. The skeleton of the hollow stem consists of truncate longitudinally 
disposed spicules. Similar spicules with bulbous centripetal ends are found 
in the spherical body; these are situated radially. In the stem sand-particles 
are found, and protrude two-thirds of their lengths. Dr. Lendenfeld was in- 
clined to consider the spicules to be produced, and not collected by the Ha- 
liphysema. — E. P. Ramsay exhibited the new birds described in his 
Paper. Also specimens of Halcyon diops from various localities, and a rare 
species of Coriphilus, C. Kuhlii, peculiar to the Fanning Islands. 
IV. Personal-Notizen. 
Necrolog. 
Am 28. Mai 1884 starb zu Stockholm O. J. Fahraeus, als Coleopte- 
rolog bekannt, 88 Jahre alt. 
Am 25. Juli 1884 starb zu London George Brettingham Sowerby, 
als Conchyliolog und Palaeontolog bekannt, geb. 2. Marz 1812, Sohn des 
gleiche Vornamen tragenden, am 12. August 1788 geborenen und am 
26. Juli 1854 gestorbenen G. B. Sowerby, welcher gleich seinem Sohne die 
conchyliologischen Arbeiten seines Vaters James fortsetzte. G. Br. Sowerby 
der ältere hatte den Thesaurus conchyliorum herauszugeben begonnen, wel- 
chen der jetzt verstorbene G. Br. S. jun. fortführte. 
Am 13. August 1884 starb zu Aachen Prof. Dr. Arnold Förster, der 
als ausgezeichneter Hymenopterenkenner bekannte Entomolog. 
Am 1. September 1884 starb zu Stuttgart Prof. Dr. Otto Köstlin, 
Verfasser eines geschätzten Buches über den Schädel u. a. Werke. 
Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 
