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smell. I did never see such ugly creatures anywhere but herec (at Shark’s 
Bay). »The guanos I have observed to be very good meat, and I have often 
eaten of them with pleasure. But though I have eaten of snakes, croco- 
diles and allegators and many creatures that look frightfully enough, and 
there are but few that I should have been afraid to eat of if pressed by 
hunger, yet my stomach would scarce have served to venture upon these 
New Holland guanos, both the looks and the smell of them being so offen- 
sive.« The description of the lizard is accurate and picturesque, and 
the old buccaneer’s estimate of its flesh is much the same as that of the Mur- 
rimbidgee aborigines, who look with extreme contempt upon those natives 
of the dry plains, who for want of better food are obliged to »patter kur- 
raggaly«, — Mr. Macleay also exhibited a specimen of Strophura spinigera 
Gray, a small lizard found in the pine scrubs of the interior, and reputed 
to be venomous. When irritated it ejects from pores in the tail, an acrid 
fluid, which, immediately on exposure to the air, becomes viscid. — Mr. 
Brazier, for Mr. J. F. Bailey, of Victoria, exhibited a specimen of Bu- 
limus acutus, Muller, taken July 22, ina garden at Collingwood. This 
species has been introduced from France. — Mr. Fletcher exhibited spe- 
cimens of a parasite, Filaria macropi majoris, or. F. Websteri according to 
Cobbold, which is often to be met with inclosed in cysts about the distal end 
of the thigh bone, sometimes extending some way down the shank bone. 
Out of thirteen specimens, three males and one female shewed these parasites. 
They are referred to in Vol. II, p. 293 of Dr. Bennett’s Wanderings in 
N.S.W. So far they do not seem to have been met with in any species of 
kangaroo but M. major. 
3. Gesucht 
wird zum alsbaldigen Eintritte ein Assistent (Dr. phil.) fur das zoo- 
tomische Laboratorium einer grôBeren deutschen Universität. Gehalt 
(bei 3 — 3!/, sttindiger Arbeitszeit während des Semesters) 900 Mark. 
Bewerbungen mit Curriculum vitae und Zeugnissen sind unter der 
Bezeichnung »Z. A. Oct.« bei der Redaction dieses Blattes ein- 
zureichen. 
IV. Personal-Notizen. 
Necrolog. 
Am 7. September starb in Drayton Beauchamp der Rev. Henry Harpur 
Crewe im Alter von 54 Jahren. Er war als Lepidopterolog, besonders als 
Kenner der britischen Eupithecien rühmlichst bekannt. 
Am 15. September starb in Gent der Prof. der Physik, Joseph (Ant. 
Ferd.) Plateau, bekannt durch seine Leistungen auf dem Gebiete der 
physiologischen Optik, der Hydrodynamik u. A., Vater des Professors der 
Zoologie an der gleichen Universitàt. Er war am 14. Oct. 1801 in Briissel 
geboren, erblindete im Jahre 1842, war aber nachher noch mit seltener 
geistiger Energie thätig, indem er sich Experimentatoren erzog, die nach 
seinen Angaben verfahrend für ihn sahen und beobachteten. 
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