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limestone [vide Miscellanea]. Mr. A. R. Riddle showed a 

 driving glove illustrating the effect of high-temperature steam 

 upon leather, and also referred to further experiments on the 

 amethystine colouration of glass by ultra-violet and X-ray 

 radiation [vide Miscellanea]. Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited a 

 drawer of useful ladybirds from various parts of Australia; 

 some wood and lead foil bored by an auger-beetle (XylopsocusJ 

 in a consignment from Ceylon, recently condemned by the 

 Department of Agriculture; a ball, about the size of a golf- 

 ball, made from the sticky fruit of a species of Casytha, from 

 Mr. J. Wright; and some gastroliths, or belly-stones, from 

 the crayfish (from Mr. J. Formby). Captain S. A. White 

 showed the following birds from the Queensland scrub : — 

 Rifle bird (Ptiloris paradisea ) , white-throated thickhead 

 (Pacliyce'pJmla 'pectoralis), yellow-rumped shrike-robin 

 (Eopsaltria chrysorrhos), rose-breasted robin (Belchera 

 rosea), male and female, silver-blue wren (Mcdurus cyaneus 

 cyanochlamys) ; also samples of strata from a well at Fulham, 

 near Adelaide. Mr. Edwin Ashby exhibited Petauxus 

 poliocephalus, flying fox, male, shot in orchard at Yinnar, 

 Gippsland. One^ or two of these came each night, and are 

 very destructive, eating large numbers of apples. One that 

 was shot in the wing and unable to fly accepted half an apple 

 from one of the bystanders and quite unconcernedly com- 

 menced chewing it. Also Taquan flying phalanger 

 (Petauxoides volans, Kerr), which was also obtained at 

 Yinnar, Gippsland, on April 6, 1920. It is a fine male 

 specimen measuring: head and body, 19 in.; ta,il, 22 in.; 

 or a total of 41 in. Long black to dark-grey silky fur on 

 the upper-side, under-side white. Mr. F. R. Zietz showed 

 four specimens of sepia bone, probably a new species, obtained 

 from Cape Leeuwin, Port Noarlunga, and also from American 

 River, Kangaroo Island, and for comparison. Sepia hraggi, 

 Tate, from Cape Leeuwin. Mr. F. R. Zietz also showed galls 

 from a Casuarina, which had been destroyed by shrike tits; 

 also an aboriginal grinding-stone from tl«:e Avoca district, 

 Victoria, and a stone axe, showing how it corresponded with 

 the worn surface of the orrinding-stone. 



Papers. — "Studies in Comparative Physiology. I. — 

 Observations on the Physiology of the Fly's Intestine," by 

 Professor T. Brailsford Robertson, Ph.D., D.Sc. ; "Essential 

 Oil from the Fruit of CalUtris verrucosa,'' by H. H. Finlay- 

 SON, communicated by Professor E. H. Rennie, D.Sc. ; "Note 

 on the Generic Position of Certain Australian Cambrian 

 Trilobites," by Professor W. Howchin, F.G.S. [vide Mis- 

 cellanea]. 



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