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specimens had been previously brought to light in digging drains, 

 post-holes, &c; and acting on this information, and with the help 

 of some boys who knew of these occurrences, Miss Lodder had no 

 difficulty in finding patches of ground where the fishes could be 

 turned up with a spade. The explanation of the matter seemed 

 to be that the fishes were sestivating in damp soil representing 

 the bed of a water-hole or swamp which liad dried up. 



Mr. Stead remarked that other species of -Galaxias were known 

 to have a similar habit, though he could not, from memory, say 

 just then where a record of the fact was to be found. 



Mr. Fletcher also showed some examples of last year's male 

 amenta of the Bunya Bunya (Araucaria Bidwilli Hook.), which 

 were larger than those exhibited at the Meeting in September 

 1904. Some of these were from a tree in the Society's garden 

 which produced male amenta for the first time in 1904 (two), 

 and twelve in 1905. Some of the specimens shown were 

 18 centims. in length, but only one of tliem attained the dimen- 

 sions [20 centims.] given for the species by Mr. A. C. Seward and 

 Miss Ford in their recent paper "On the Araucarise, Recent and 

 Extinct."* 



Phil. Trans. Series B., Vol.198, p.324, 1906. 



