METEOROLOGICAL NOTES. 



By Mrs. Coxen, M.R.M.S. 

 I would draw the attention of the members to some of the 

 meteorological features of the past month as deduced from my ob- 

 servations at Bulimba. 



The maximum shade readings have been abnormally high ; we 

 have readings of 90° on the 25th, 93" on the 28th, 94° 

 on the 13th, 95° on the 14th, and 98° on the 15th; and, as 

 showing the extraordinary character of the month, 1 would mention 

 that only twice, in the same month, during the previous five years that 

 J have been regularly registering air temperature, has the thermometer 

 reached 90* or over — viz. 90° on Gtli November, 1885, 91* 

 on 15th November, 1883; partly owing to this the mean shade 

 temperature for the month is higher than the mean for five years 

 previously. 



The maximum temperature in sun has also been high — 132° 

 on 18th and 136° on 15th having been registered. 



Up to the 80th November the rainfall has been very far short, 

 being only about one-third the quantity registered to the same date 

 in 1887. 



ON A NEW GENUS OF EXTINCT MAMMALS. 



Bv C. W. De Vis, M.A. 

 A fragment of a right lower jaw from the bone beds of Chinchilla 

 preserves a nearly perfect cheek-tooth in place, and the adjacent 

 half of the tooth posterior to it. In form and connection these 

 teeth are to the writer unique. They abut against each other, not 

 by a basal line of contact resulting from pressure in the rear as 

 usual, but by means of coadapted processes extending from each 

 end of each tooth, somewhat after the fashion of a vertebral 

 zygapophysis. 



