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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 
NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 
Mr. Etheridge exhibited the skull of an aVjoriginal, and in 
reference to it read the following Note : — 
“The skull exhibited formed a portion of an aboriginal skeleton 
found on the western side of North Harbour. The skeleton was 
found about one foot below the surface protected from the covering 
soil by the usual flat stones. It lay in a N.E. and S.W. position 
on the left side, facing to the 8.E., but the lower extremities were 
more or less drawn up towards the trunk. It was complete with 
the exception of the left femur and the arm bones. Measurements 
would show it to be the skeleton of a full-grown and probably flne 
man. The chief point of interest, however, is in the position of 
the bones of the left hand, which now lie against the same side of 
the head, the fingers extended and pressed into the orbit. It 
would appear that at burial the left arm was doubled up, and the 
head placed resting on the hand, as a kind of pillow. The speci- 
men is exhibited on behalf of Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, the Goveniment 
Geologist, and was found during explorations carried on by Mr. 
T. W, Edgeworth David, Mr. Pedley, and the writer.” 
Mr. Etheridge also exhibited the fossils described in his paper. 
The following note on the synonymy of Fictis scahra, G. Forst., 
was read by Mr. Maiden : — 
“ Ficus scahra, G. Forst. ; Syn. F. aspera, G. Forst. ('Purple fig,’ 
‘ White fig,’ ‘ Ptough-leaved fig.’ Called ‘Flooded fig’ on the Clar- 
ence Piiver, N.S.W.) Extends from Victoila to Queensland. F. 
icaira and F. aspera (so tar as Australian specimens go) have been 
used apparently indiscriminately by some writers, and as the com- 
piler of this note has looked carefully into the matter during a 
compax’ison of some fig-timbers for the Technological Museum, he 
submits the few remarks which follow, as it is most desirable to 
secure uniformity of nomenclature. F. aspera in B. FI. vi. 174, 
followed by Bailey, Syn. Qd. Flora, 489 ; F. scahra in Muell. Cen. 
p. 22 ; Seemann, Flcrra Vitiensis, 249, Tab. lxiv. ( F. scahra ), lxv. 
( F. aspera). Muell. Fragm. x. 114, say.s — ‘ Ficus scahra (G. Forst.), 
includit F. asperam plurium .scriptorum atque Benthami (B.Fl. vi. 
