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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 
Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of the galls mentioned in his 
paper, together with drawings of the same. Also two hazel hoops 
taken from powder kegs on board one of the powder hulks in 
Sydney attacked by the larva? of Gracilia pygmcea, Fabr., a 
small European longicorn beetle, specimens of which were 
shown, and which had been evidently introduced in the wood. 
The larvae burrow under the bark of the hoops. As many as over 
40 specimens were bred from two hoops. Also the remains of a 
larva of the Australian silk worm moth ( Anther cm eucalypti) 
destroyed by parasitic hymenoptera (Fam. Braconidce ) which had 
produced a remarkable mass of white cotton-like substance 2^ 
inches long and 1| inch in width, enveloping a double row of 
cocoons. 
Mr. Maiden sent for exhibition some specimens of fire-sticks 
used by the natives on the ranges behind Cardwell, N. Queens- 
land. They are tied up in bundles with a board on which the 
sticks are rubbed, painted and carved to represent some animal. 
Also some pearl-shell fishhooks cut into slender curved points, 
with modernised editions made from iron nails picked up on the 
sea shore in which the old form is reproduced, used by the natives 
of Hinchinbrook Island. Also a shell forehead ornament from 
the same place. 
Mr. Garland showed a miscellaneous gathering of fragmenta 
from an aboriginal kitchen midden in a cave shelter at Pittwater, 
comprising spines of various fishes, bones of marsupials, &c, 
together with a pointed bone, probably in use as a piercer in 
sewing skins. 
Mr. Brazier exhibited a varied collection of zoological and 
botanical specimens found by F. C. Brazier at Nelson Bay Beach 
(Bronte), Waverley, during the southerly gales of April 11-1 3th 
last, comprising Sepia apaina, Gray, common; elongata, Orb., 
rare, one imperfect specimen; S. capensis, Orb., thirty specimens; 
S. auslralis, Orb., eight specimens in very fair condition; laathina 
