402 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
II SUBORDO GUMMINA. 0O. Sehmide. 
Myxospongiee with a fibrillous mesodermal ground substance. 
10. Famitia CuHonprosip& F. #. Schulze. Characters of the 
Suborder. 
I. Sus-Famitia CHonpRosin&, Von Lendenfeld. Chondroside 
without flesh spicules. 1 species. 
II, Sus-Faminia CuonpRissinz. Von Lendenfeld. Chondroside 
with flesh spicules. 4 species. 
(2) “The method of Section Cutting with some improvements,” by 
R. Von Lendenfeld, Ph.D. In this paper the author gives a very 
detailed description of this method, and adds'some small improvements, 
The author combines Caldwell’s and F. E. Schulze’s methods of 
preventing sections from curling up. 
(3) “Ameba parasitica. A new parasitic Protozoan infesting 
Sheep,” by R. Von Lendenfeld, Ph.D. The author dwells in this paper 
on the interesting parasite which he exhibited al the last meeting of the 
Society. He has since succeeded in breeding the parasite artificially in 
an aquarium, from the scurf of a sheep affected by the disease. The 
Ameeba which has been thus produced is described. 
(4) “The Meteorology of Mount Kosciusko,” by R. Von Lenden- 
feld, Ph.D. In this paper the author dwells on the meteorological 
results of his recent expedition to that mountain. He shows that there 
is more aqueous precipitation on the plateau than at any meteorological 
_ station in New South Wales or Victoria. He notices the unprecedented 
amount of dew, caused by the low (below zero) nocturnal temperature 
in those regions. Permanent snowfields, the remains of drifts, are 
found there (37° S.), 1500ft. lower than homologous snowfields in the 
European Alps (47° N.), a fact which shows that Australia, although a 
hot and dry Continent, makes no exception to the rule of greater cold 
and greater moisture in the southern bemisphere. 
(5) “The Glacial period in Australia,” by R. Von Lendenfeld, 
Ph.D. The author gives the results of his recent expedition to the 
central part of the Australian Alps in this paper, as far as they bear on 
the above question. He ascended the two highest peaks in Australia, 
and found on the plateau which surrounds them undoubted glacial 
remains in the shape of rdches moutonnées in many places above 5800ft. 
He concludes that Australia was affected by a glacial period at the same 
epoch as New Zealand, but that owing to the lowness of the mountains 
(only 7256ft. the highest peak) the low latitude and the warm and dry 
winds from the interior, the glaciers attained but smal! dimensions and 
only covered an area of about 100 square miles. He considers it 
probable that no other glaciers existed in Australia at the time, as even 
those on the highest elevation of the continent were so small. 
(6) ‘On the Proteacex,” by the Rev. W. Woolls, Ph.D., F.L.S. 
The author refers to the wide distribution of this order in Europe 
during the Tertiary period, as evidenced by fossils, which bear a close 
resemblance to forms now existing in Australia, though Bentham 
nevertheless was of opinion that a great many Australian species must 
have originated in this geographical region. The order extends from 
