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The only evidence in favour of the crocodile as a member of the Fijian fauna 

 appeared to be a statement of Mariner's ("Natives of the Tonga Islands," 

 Vol. i. p. 334. 1817). With regard to the lizard, of which a specimen ob- 

 tained at Tongatabu was in the British Museum , the question was raised 

 whether its occurrence in Tonga may not have been due to its importation 

 from Fiji by the Tongans, who were in the habit of importing parrots and 

 produce of various kinds. — Mr. Lucas stated that in a carefully gathered 

 collection of lizards which he had received from Tonga, Brachylophus was 

 not represented, and the species was not known to him from that locality. 

 Mr. Lucas also offered some remarks on the flora and fauna of the Kosciusko 

 Plateau ; and on behalf of Mr. Guy Thornton of New Zealand, who was 

 present he exhibited a large collection of the New Zealand Cordyceps or 

 Vegetable Caterpillar. — Mr. Palmer exhibited portion of the trunk of a 

 Eucalypt and a quantity of chips torn therefrom, to show to what purpose 

 the Black Cockatoos can use their enormously powerful mandibles when 

 engaged in the search for boring longicorn larvae. The stem of the tree ex- 

 hibited had been ripped up and almost severed, and was one of a number 

 more or less similarly treated at Lawson, Blue Mountains. — The Hon. James 

 Norton exhibited a specimen of the Sydney Bush-Rat [Mus arboricola, W. 

 S. Macleay, or 31. rattus according to Mr. Oldfield Thomas) from a garden 

 at Double Bay, together with the gnawed branches of a Bougainvillea, which 

 was threatened with destruction. He also remarked, in reference to Mr. 

 Palmer's exhibit, that in his grounds at Springwood the Black Cockatoos 

 had succeeded in ring-barking some trees of one of the Manna Gums one 

 foot in diameter, in pursuit if boring grubs. 



III. Personal -Notizen. 



Necrologe. 



Am 24. Febriiar starb in Edinburg Sir John Struthers. Er war 1823 

 in Dunfermline geboren, studierte in Edinburg Medicin, promovierte 1845 

 zum Dr. med. und wurde, nachdem er schon in Edinburg in der Extra-Mural 

 School of Medicine mit Erfolg Anatomie gelehrt hatte, 1863 zum Professor 

 der Anatomie in Aberdeen ernannt. 1SS9 legte er die Stelle nieder und zog 

 sich nach Edinburg zurück. Besonders bekannt sind seine Untersuchungen 

 über die Cetaceen, namentlich die Bartenwale. 



Am 18. April starb in Paris Charles Brongniart im Alter von vierzig 

 Jahren. Namentlich haben ihn seine Untersuchungen über fossile Insecten 

 bekannt gemacht. 



Am 20. April starb in London Joseph Wolf, der ausgezeichnete Thier- 

 maler, geb. in Coblenz 1820. 



Am 23, April starb in London Jabez Hogg, geb. 4. April 1817, der 

 bekannte Verfasser des in fünfzehn Auflagen erschienenen Buches »The Mi- 

 croscope«. 



Druck TOn Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



