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Papers—(1) ‘“ Half Century of Plants new to South Queens- 
land,” Rev. C. Scortechini. This paper was to some extent a con- 
tinuation of a previous paper by the same author, and contained 
the results of further researches on the flora of that part of the 
country. Among the plants enumerated were many hitherto 
regarded as strictly tropical, while others had not previously been 
observed in such warm latitudes. 
(2) ‘Contribution to a Knowledge of the Fishes of New 
Guinea,” by the Hon. William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. This paper 
gives a list of 120 species of Percoid fishes collected by Mr. Andrew 
Goldie at Port Moresby and Cuppa-Cuppa, in New Guinea. They 
are, with few exceptions, species which have been described by 
Dr. Bleeker as being found on the northern shores of that island 
and throughout the Netherlands India Archipelago generally. 
The new species described are Sevvanus Goldie, Serranus magnificus, 
Genyoroge bidens, Mesoprion rubens, M. parvidens, M. Goldiet, Diagramma 
Papuense, Lethvinus aurolineatus. ‘The remainder of Mr. Goldie’s 
collection is to form the subject of a tuture paper. 
(3.) «A Monograph of the Australian Aphroditacean Annelids,” 
Mr. W. A. Haswell, M.A., B.Sc. The first part of the paper was 
occupied by an account of various points in the anatomy and 
physiology of the group, the chief being a description of the struc- 
ture of the elytra, the demonstration that the structures described 
by Ehlers and Williams as segmental organs are portions of the 
intestinal czca, and the description of a psuedohaemal system in 
various species of Polynoidz, in which family it had previously 
been supposed to be absent. The second part contained a de- 
_ scription of thirty-two species, most of them new, from tropical 
Queensland, Port Jackson, and Victoria. 
(4) Two papers by Mr. E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S., Curator of the 
Australian Museum, one containing a description of a new species 
of Phlogenas (P. Salamonis) and of a new species of Dicrurus (pro- 
posed to be called D. longivostvis), from the Solomon Islands; the 
other containing a description of a new species of Covis from Lord 
Howe's Island. Specimens of both birds, collected by Mr. John 
Stephen, ot Ugi, were exhibited. 
The Hon. W. Macleay exhibited a specimen of Chersydrus annu- 
latus of Gray. He said that he was indebted to Mr. De Vis, of the 
Queensland Museum, for this specimen, which was the first he had 
ever seen of the kind. It is a freshwater snake, found in the rivers 
of India, Sumatra, and New Guinea, but never hitherto known as 
an inhabitant of Australia. The present specimen came from 
Cairns. 
Dr. Thomas Dixon exhibited, under the microscope, prepara- 
tions made by himself of the Bacillus described by Ebert as peculiar 
to typhoid fever. Other preparations were exhibited showing the 
occurrence of germs, very like typhoid germs, in a cesspit, but the 
absence of any such in diarrhea. 
Professor W. J. Stephens exhibited a few specimens of a lost 
Eucalyptus which had been lately re-discovered by his brother, 
Mr. T. Stephens, in the immediate neighbourhood ,of Hobart. 
He stated that the plant (Eucalyptus cordata) had only once been 
seen by botanists since the expedition of d’Entrecasteaux, and 
then only in two isolated and remote spots. Perhaps some now 
present would recollect an old gum tree, near the present entrance 
