371 
| gentien werden in jeder Quantität umsonst abgegeben, nicht vor- 
i handene werden bereitwilligst besorgt. 
$ 10. 
Instrumente (Messer, Pincetten, Scheren, Mikroskop, Zeichen- 
apparate) hat sich jeder Gelehrte mitzubringen; ein Jung’sches Mikro- 
| tom ist vorhanden, das nöthigenfalls zur Benutzung überlassen wird. 
§ 11. 
Beschwerden, welche die Gelehrten anzubringen haben, wollen 
dieselben direct an das Berliner Aquarium, wenn nöthig auf telegra- 
phischem Wege, richten. 
§ 12. 
Die Bezahlung der Rechnungen erfolgt bei der Abreise oder nach 
Vereinbarung mit der Direction. 
Berlin, im Mai 1893. 
2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 
July 26th, 1893. — 1) Botanical. — 2) Description of a new Skink 
Lizard (Hemisphaeriodon tasmanicum) from Tasmania. By C. Frost, F.L.S., 
and A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.Sc. — 3) Note on an abnormal Connec- 
tion of the Renal-Portals in a young male Frog (Ayla aurea). By Jas. 
P. Hill, F.L.S. — 4) Description of a new Cystignathoid Frog from 
New South Wales. By J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc. — 5) On a new 
Species of Coccid (Lecanopsis filicum) on Fernroots. By W. M. Maskell, 
(Communicated by A. Sidney Olliff.) — Mr. North exhibited a specimen 
of Platycercus Pennantii, received from Dr. P. Herbert Metcalfe, the Re- 
sident Medical Officer on Norfolk Island. This bird was separated from 
the continental form by Canon Tristam under the name of P. Pennant, var. 
Nobbst, on account of its smaller size, upon the suggestion and receipt of 
specimens from Mr. E. L. Layard, who stated all his birds of this species 
were the same size. The specimen forwarded by Dr. Metcalfe is in imma- 
ture plumage, but actually exceeds in its length of wing and tarsus typical 
Australian examples, thus confirming the opinion of Count Salvadori in his 
Catalogue of the Psittaci, who states that he found no difference in the size 
of the insular from the continental form, except that a specimen from Nor- 
folk Island was even larger than any from Australia, and who ranks P. 
Nobbsi as a synonym of P. elegans, of Gmelin (P. Pennantii, of Lath.), our 
well-known Australian species (Brit. Mus. Cat. Vol. XX. 1891). — Mr. 
North also exhibited specimens of Graucalus melanops, Lath., and Ardea 
Novae-Hollandiae, Lath., recently obtained by Dr. Metcalfe for the first time 
on Norfolk Island. — Mr. Lucas exhibited a specimen of the new Tasma- 
nian lizard; specimens of a Victorian frog (Pseudophryne semi-marmorata) , 
and fossil plants from Joadja Creek, among them an interesting specimen of 
Glossopteris showing impressions of sori. — Mr. Froggatt exhibited spe- 
cimens of the galls of Cecidomyia nubilipennis, Sk., previously unrecorded, 
from Flemington on the leaf-stalks of Eucalyptus siderophloia, and of the 
gnats bred there-from. — Mr. Hedley exhibited a specimen of Nautilus 
