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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 
Mr. Edgar R. Waite exhibited a number of living "Waltzing" 
Mice, quite recently received from Japan, where these curious 
animals appear to have originated. They were first made known 
in Europe by M. C. Schlumberger, in 1893. Last year he pub- 
lished a description with figures copied from Japanese ivory 
carvings representing these mice (Mem. Soc. Zool. de France, 1894, 
p. 63). M. Schlumberger's mice and also Mr. Waite's are white 
variegated with black; the exhibitor had bred some entirely 
white but with discernible faint fawn marks indicating what 
portions would normally be black. These mice are constantly 
rotating, and this trait constitutes the peculiarity which gives to 
them their trivial name. 
Mr. Maiden showed a series of botanical specimens in illustra-, 
tion of his paper. 
Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of the beetles described in 
his paper, and drawings of six of them in different stages of their 
life-history. Also, some pine resin from the stems of Frenella 
robuxta, collected near Wagga, N.'S.W., and sent to the Techno- 
logical Museum, in which are enclosed and beautifully preserved 
a large number of insects, at least eight different species of 
Formicidice, Mtclilla sp., Chalcis sp., besides about twenty different 
species of Coleoptera. 
Mr. Masters exhibited a very attractive collection of 420 species 
■of Coleoptera collected by him during a stay of five days at Black- 
heath, Blue Mts. 
Mr. Fred. Turner sent for exhibition flowering and fruiting 
specimens of a plant (Adriana acerifolia, Hook.) suspected of 
poisoning cattle. He also communicated the particulars of two 
cases in each of which the patient had been authoritatively pro- 
nounced by two medical men to be suffering from hydatids, and 
an operation recommended, but, it was asserted, relief had been 
otherwise obtained from the use of a decoction prepared from 
