325 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
— Helix Broadbenti, Braz. ; H. (Obba) Goldie, Braz.; BH. (Geotrochus) 
Zeno, Braz.; FH. (Geotrochus) Tapperonit, Smith ; A. (Geotrochus) Tay- 
loriana, Ad. and Reeve; H. (Spherospina) Gervardi, E. A.- Smith; 
H. (Planispina) corniculum, Hombr. and Jacq.; Nanina (Xesta) 
citvina, Linn. 
(8) ‘‘The Time of the Glacial Period in New Zealand,” by-B. 
von Lendenfeld, Ph.D. The results of the author’s survey in the 
New Zealand Alps, partly corroborating and partly extending the 
results of Dr. von Haast’s surveys, showed that the present glaciers 
are as large and extend down as far as those in Norway, where the 
mean annual temperature is C 3°, whilst in New Zealand it is 
C 711°. The greater expanse of water in the Southern Hemi- 
sphere, and the consequently greater amount of humidity in the 
air, and more copious rain and snowfall are considered to be the 
cause of this. The sounds in the south-west ccast are similar to 
the fjords in Norway, and the alluvial deposits at their upper 
ends are small. Scooped out originally by flowing water, these 
sounds remained unchanged during the period of subsidence of the 
land, and were not filled up with debris, because large glaciers 
occupied them during that time. As soon as these glaciers dis- 
appeared the formation of the alluvial deposits commenced, and 
from the fact that the latter are small and increasing rapidly in 
size from year to year, the author considers that the Glacial Period 
in New Zealand must have been very recent, 
(9) “List of Papers and Works relating to the Mammalian 
Orders Marsupialia and Monotremata,” by J. J. Fletcher, M.A., 
B.Sc. The aim of this catalogue, which contains the titles and 
references of several hundred papers, &c., is to do for the student 
of these two interesting and peculiarly Australian Orders of the 
Mammalia, what Etheridge and Jack’s Catalogue has done for 
the student of Australian Geology. It includes all papers dealing 
with the anatomy of these groups, all descriptions of new species 
since the publication of Gould’s work, and a few papers on 
Paleontology omitted from Etheridge and Jack’s Catalogue, 
together with a few published since that appeared. Mr. Fletcher 
exhibited a number of the rarer papers enumerated in the list. 
(10) ‘ On two new Birds, from the Austro-Malayan region,” 
by E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., &c. The species here described are: 
—1. Pitta Finschu, sp.nov. Allied to Pitta Mackloti, but distinct 
in having no red nape patch, and the whole of the upper surface 
except the head blue, instead of green. 2. Halcyon albonotata, sp. 
nov. This species comes under the sub-genus Cyanalcyon, it is 
allied to Halcyon Macleayi and H. diops, but differs from all in 
having the whole of the back and upper tail coverts white. 
The President exhibited a curious shoe which was obtained by 
Mr. H. G. L. Brown from some natives in Central Australia. It 
is made of emu’s feathers and human hair, and-is said to be worn 
by the natives to prevent their footprints being detected. 
Mr. Macleay exhibited a lizard sent for exhibition by the Rey, 
J. Milne Curran, trom Dubbo. He captured it on account of its 
singular mode ot progression, having observed it run for six yards 
in an erect posture with the fore legs quite off the ground. The 
lizard was of the genus Gvammatophorus, of which there are several 
species in the country, all of them much given to playing and 
gambolling on sunny days, but the peculiar mode ot progression 
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