346 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
Sydney, 27th December, 1882,—Dr. James C. Cox, F.L.S., Pre- 
sident, in the chair. 
Papers.—1. ‘“‘ Occasional Notes on Plants indigenous in the 
neighbourhood of Sydney,” No. 2. By Edwin Havilland, Esq. | 
This paper treats chiefly of the construction and habits of Utvicu- 
lavia dichotoma, of the order Lentibularince, showing the provision 
made to enable the plant (which usually grows in shallow creeks) 
to float in case of an increase in the depth of the stream; thus 
avoiding injury to the pollen, which would occur if it were sub- 
merged, The author also referred to the peculiar construction of 
the flower, favouring cross-fertilization, while at the same time 
self-fertilization 1s prevented by the corolla falling off, carrying 
with it the stamens and pollen before the stigma is mature. 
2. ‘* Description of a new Belideus (B. gracilis), from Northern 
Queensland.” By Charles W De Vis, B.A. A species in size 
between B. austvalis and B. sciureus, differing from both in its mark- 
ings, in having shorter ears and in the more slender and less hairy ~ 
tail. 
3. A paper by the same author describing two new Queensland 
Fishes—-Callionymus achates and Mugil nasutus. 
4. * The species of Eucalyptus first known in Europe.” By 
the Rev. Dr. Woolls. Of the twelve species described by Willde- 
now, eleven are from the immediate neighbourhood of Sydney, and 
one only from Tasmania. This tree, the Tasmanian Stringy Bark, 
E. obliqua, was the first Eucalypt know in Europe, the specimen 
having been collected during Furneaux’s Voyage. On it L’Héri- 
tier founded the genus, 1788. The early descriptions are, as it 
may be supposed, very vague and imperfect, and their identifica- 
tion has been a matter of much difficulty and hesitation, now hap- 
pily removed. 
5. “On some new species of Tubicolous Annelides.” By 
William A. Haswell, M.A., B.Sc. This paper contained descrip- 
tions of five new species of tubicolous annelides from New South 
Wales and Queensland. 
6. ““On New Species of Agaricus discovered in Western Aus- 
tralia.” By the Rev. C. Kalchbrenner. The new species described, 
which were collected by Mrs. Forrest, were named Agaricus For- 
vestie, A. carneo-flavidus, A. turbinipes, A. plagiotus, and A. bicinctus. 
7. **On some points in the anatomy of the urogenital organs in 
females of certain species of Kangaroos,” Part I., by J. J. 
Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc. This paper continues the subject treated 
of in a former paper, and gives an account of the urogenital organs 
of sixty female kangaroos, of which forty-four specimens described 
in Part I. were taken from animals which had certainly produced 
young. The results are—(1) Corroborative of the fost partum exist- 
ence of a direct communication between the median vaginal and 
urogenital canals in H. vujficollis, Osphvanter vobustus, and Osphranter 
vufus, in all of which species it has been met with before. (2) 
Descriptive of its existence in two species (H. dorsalis and Onycho- 
galea frenaa) in which the female organs have been hitherto un- 
described. (3) Corroborative ot the absence, as a rule, of the 
direct communication in Macvopus major, even after parturition. 
Part II., treating of the organs of virgin animals, with summary 
and conclusion, will be given later on. 
