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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



The Secretary communicated a letter from Dr. J. B. Cleland, 

 President of the West Australian Natural History Society, 

 Perth, in which the writer showed that the needs of West 

 Australia in respect of proper reservations for national parks, 

 and satisfactory administration of the Game Acts for the 

 preservation of marsupials and birds, were perhaps rather more 

 urgent than those of any other State. Dr. Cleland also for- 

 warded a copy of a resolution passed at the last meeting of the 

 Society, expressing approval of the efforts now being made to 

 arouse attention in the matter of the protection of the indigenous 

 flora and fauna ; and offering cordial support. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited an interesting series of biting and 

 ^bloodsucking Diptera from the Soudan, Africa, received from 

 Mr. Harold H. King, and including examples of the Tsetse-Fly 

 (Glossiua morsitans Westw ) so destructive to stock in South 

 Africa, and the allied species, Glossina palpalis Desv., which 

 transmits the organism causing " sleeping sickness "; a biting 

 house-fly (Stomoxys sp.); the Camel Louse Fly Hippobosca came- 

 Una Leech; and six common biting horse-flies (Tabanidce) found 

 in the Soudan. 



Acting-Professor Woolnough exhibited a collection of Grapto- 

 lites from a northern extension of the locality on the Shoalhaven 

 recently noted by Mr. Carne. The Ordovician rocks occur in 

 the form of a narrow band extending from near Tolwong Creek, 

 northwards past the great bend of the Shoalhaven, through the 

 Razorback and Ballanya Trig. Station to a point about one mile 

 south of the Great Southern Railway Line between Tallong and 

 Marulan. Silurian and Devonian rocks are developed in the 

 neighbourhood. This is the nearest point to Sydney at which 

 fossiliferous Ordivician strata have been met with. 



