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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 
which kee|)s the required temperature within a few tenths of a 
degree for weeks. It is, for instance, not difficult to attenuate tlie 
bacillus of anthrax so as to lose its virulent etiect on animals. 
Mr. Rohu exhibited a tish ( Serranus cylindricus, GUnth.) from 
the New Hebrides, originally described from Madagascar, and 
subsequently recorded from Zanzibar ; and he stated that he was 
indebted for its determination to IMr. J. D. Ogilby, who believed 
this to be the first time it had been recorded from the Pacific. 
Also a carved shield, probably from Fiji, very similar to that 
figured in a recent issue of the “ Sydney Mail ” as one of those 
in use by the Botany Bay natives at the time of Captain Cook’s 
visit 
Mr. H. Deane exhibited another supply of fossils from Bredbo 
(vide Abstract for July last) ; and, on behalf of INIr. Williams 
a monstrous kitten with double liody. 
Mr. De Vis sent for exhibition the bones of fossil birds 
described in his paper. 
The President exhibited, for Dr. Woolls, specimens of Dodoncm 
attenuata, D. viscosa, D. horoniifolia, &c., and of Heterodendron 
oleifolium, referred to in his paper. Also two species of Eucalyptus, 
£. stellulata var. microphylla, and E. stricia, from the Blue 
^fountains. Dr. Woolls was desirous to hear of any shrubby 
sfiecies not with reniform, but with parallel-celled anthers. 
The Px’esident also exhibited a number of fossils which he had 
collected some years ago from the Devonian (I) mudstones of 
Cudgegong, near Rylstone, and which appeai'ed to belong to 
the family Receptaculitidce, a Palaiozoic grouj) of Hexactinellid 
Sponges (Dr. G. J. Hinde, Q.J.G.S., 1884, p. 795). He now 
exhibited them for comparison with the noilular .structures from 
Bredbo, which were laid before the J uly meeting by Mi\ Deane, 
and supplemented by an additional exhibit this evening. Also 
other specimens of the same family from the hard limestones 
of the county of Argyle. They appear to approach Ischadites 
rather than Eeceptaculites, but require a more particular examin- 
ation. Also a Crustacean fossil from the limestone at Bungasalaby 
Creek, Lake Bathurst, olitained by the late Profe.ssor Thomson of 
the Sydney University, and probably referable to the Eurypteridie. 
