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from the Botanical Gardens to the Garden Palace, with remarkably 
glaucous foliage, and papery bark like some Melaleucas. This was 
a specimen of Eucalyptus cordata, which must have been brought 
here, long since, either as a seed or asa young plant, from Tas- 
mania, and which survived until a short time back. At present 
there was no example of the plant in our collections. In closing 
his notice Professor Stephens expressed the hope that this 
re-discovery might be suggestive to collectors that their own 
immediate neighbourhood may probably furnish facts new or 
unexpected, remarking how forty years of oblivion had given a 
curious dignity to the otherwise not very attractive specimens 
that he now laid before the Society. | 
Other interesting exhibits were shown by Dr. W. D. C. 
Williams and Mr. E. P. Ramsay. 
Sydney, 26th July, 1882—Dr. James C. Cox, F.L.S., presi- 
dent, in the chair. 
New members of the Society—Edwin Daintrey, Sydney; 
Thomas R. M‘Dougall, Baan Baa, Narrabri; Edwin Haviland, 
Redfern; Dr. George Hurst, Oxford street. It was announced 
that the Council had elected Mr. Edgar A. Smith, F.ZS., of the 
British Museum, and Mr. Chas. W. De Vis, Curator of the 
- Queensland Museum, corresponding members. 
Several donations were announced. 
Papers—(t1.) ‘‘ Botanical Notes in Queensland, part 3,” by the 
Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, F.G.S. This paper contained 
the results of the author’s observations on the Mulgrave River, 
with a list of the species collected by him in that district. 
(2.) “*On the Forage Plants indigenous to New South Wales,” 
by Dr. Woolls, F.L.S. The author gave an account of thé 
principal native plants upon which stock depend in this country, 
including various kinds of Salt Bush and Winter Herbage. Mr, 
Wilkinson observed that one valuable grass, which was not men- 
tioned as indigenous in Dr. Woolls’ paper, had been described by 
Dr. Schomburgh from South Australia, and pronounced to be one 
of the best fodder grasses to stand years of drought. This is 
Panicum spectabile, which, whether indigenous or not, has been 
successfully grown on the Talbragar River, fifteen miles from 
Dubbo, one of the hottest localities in New South Wales. The 
jointed stem of this grass runs along about six inches beneath the. 
surface of the ground. 
(3.) ‘* Descriptions of three new Fishes of Queensland,” by 
Chas. W. de Vis, B.A. The species described are—1. Oligorus 
Goliath, taken in Moreton Bay, a fish of gigantic size, seven feet 
long and two feet high; 2. Synaptura Fitzrotensis, from Rock- 
hampton; and 3. Engraulis Carpenterie, from the Norman 
River. 
(4.) ** Description of a species of Squill (Lysiosquilla Muersi), 
from Moreton Bay,” by Chas. W. De Vis, B.A. This Crustacean, 
which is found in Moreton Bay, differs materially from the two 
species of the same genus recorded in Mr. Haswell’s catalogue, 
which belong to Mr. Miers’ second section of the genus, while the 
present species agrees with his first section. 
(5.) ** On Cyprea citrina (Gray), from Rowley Shoals, North- 
West Australia,” by John Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 
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