336 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Whitelegge exhibited five new species of Mosses, lately 

 described by Dr. Carl Miiller in the " Ratisbon Flora " (No. 1, 

 1888), as follows : — Archidtum stolonaceum, CM. (Paddington, 

 Nov., 1884) ; Astomum viride, CM. (Mossman's Bay, Aug., 

 1884) ; A. hrachycaulon, CM. (Paddington, Aug., 1884) ; Bruchia 

 WUieleggei, CM. (Moore Park, July, 1884); B. amoena, CM. 

 (near Moss Vale, Nov., 1884). 



Dr. Katz exhibited under the microscope the bacillus of fowl- 

 cholera in a quite recent section from the liver of a hen which had 

 died of this disease (in Germany). He pointed out some peculiar 

 features in the life-history of this interesting micro-organism, and 

 said that it must be entirely left to experiment to decide whether 

 it will prove of any service in the eradication of rabbits in Aus- 

 tralia. He regretted that for the present it was not possible for 

 him to show Members the living organism ; since, unfortunately, 

 a tube containing a pure culture of it, sent to him from Germany 

 about a year ago, contained on arrival no living individuals. It 

 was not improbable that the disease (also called poultry-typhoid) 

 existed already in Australia. He also showed diagrams of the 

 above bacillus. 



Mr. S. C Burnell exhibited a living specimen of Pygopus 

 lepidopodus 25 inches in full length, from Wentworthville near 

 Parramatta. 



The President exhibited some fossils, probably species of Pentame- 

 rus, Oyathophyllum, Liihostrotion, and Favosites, fi'om the lower beds 

 of Limestone, Clieveden, Molongulli, county Bathurst. These lower 

 beds are highly argillaceous and shal}', and much altered by pressure, 

 heat and other metamorphic agencies. There is some reason to 

 regard them as the same (or contemporaneous) with the auriferous 

 shales which occur at the junction of the Belubula River and 

 Mandurama Creek, which wei-e formei'ly worked as the Junction 

 Reefs. 



Also a fragment of limestone with Pleistocene Bone Breccia 

 attached, from a cave in Clieveden. 



