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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. J. B. Cleland of Perth, W. A., sent for exhibition a very 

 interesting and varied assortment of botanical specimens gathered 

 in the neighbourhood of that city, and showing abnormalities due 

 to fasciation, to the attacks of Brachyscelidse or other insects, 

 or fungi. An offer to supply additional material to workers 

 interested in this field of study was received with the specimens. 



Mr. D. G. Stead exhibited an example of Cheilodactylus 

 spectabilis Hutton, and stated that two specimens were now in 

 the collection of the Department of Fisheries, from coastal waters 

 of New South Wales, thus forming an addition to the known 

 fish-fauna. He also exhibited an immature example of a species 

 of Trachinotus (" Dart ") captured at Terrigal by Miss Gibbins; 

 and some intra-uterine embryos of the little " Gummy " Shark, 

 Mustelus antarcticus Gunther, taken from a specimen captured in 

 Port Jackson. Mr. Stead also recorded the occurrence in the 

 waters of Port Hacking, at the beginning of October, of large 

 numbers of the cilio-flagellate infusorian, Ceratium furca 

 Ehrenberg. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited a large series of the remarkable galls 

 of a Coccid from Tennant's Creek, Central Australia, collected by 

 Mr. I. F. Field. The gall had been described, from Queensland, 

 under the name of Brachyscelis pomiformis in the Society's 

 Proceedings for 1892. An examination of the series exhibited 

 showed that the enclosed insects could not be placed in the genus 

 Apiomorpha ( = Brachysceli.s) or any other known genus, as the 

 structure of the female coccid was very different from that of 

 every other known form. 



On behalf of Professor Has well, a collection of deep sea 

 animals was exhibited by Mr. Hedley. They were obtained by 

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