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set of 120) containing one referring to the boyhood of John 
Gould, the ornithologist. 
PAP PER. — Prof. Ossonw laid on the € Rey Mies 
described a paper, ''Australian Fungi: Notes 
tions, No. 2," by J. B. Crzrawp, M.D., and Bown DAL. 
OrpinaRy MraETING, May 8, 1919. 
Tae Presipent (J. C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S.) in 
the chair. 
ELECTIONS. E A. Glastonbury and Edward Charles 
Grigson as Fellow 
Tae Pre betae referred with gem ceeds ae to the 
distinction which had been conferred upon our Fellow, Dr. 
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are the Lepadidae, or ‘‘goose barnacles," and the mang unt 
or “acorn barnacles." The former are attached by a fleshy 
stalk, and obtained their popular name from the old-world 
notion that they turned into geese. The Balanidae, or 
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the typical genus, Balanus, is the common form that covers 
hip bottoms and almost all objects in shallow water. The 
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referred to the genus Coronula, and was probably C. diadema. 
It differs from Balanus in that while the latter has a simple 
turreted shell, in the Coronula the inner wall of the shell is 
deeply infolded, by which the lower part of the shell is 
divided up into radial chambers. It has the habit of pero 
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