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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 
Mr. North exhibited a set of four eggs of Turnix leucogaster; 
recently described by him. The eggs were taken at Illamurta, 
Central Australia, on the 18th of June, 1895 ; and are of a buffy- 
white ground-colour, minutely freckled and sparingly spotted with 
different shades of chestnut-brown, purplish-brown, and violet- 
grey; an average specimen measuring 09 x 0'73 inch. 
Mr. Steel showed a very large specimen of a ship- worm ( Teredo) 
from redgum (V) piles in the fresh water of the Rewa River, Fiji, 
collected by Mr. T. Ferguson. 
Mr. Froggatt showed a representative collection of some eighty 
named species of Australian Ants (Formicidce). Also speci- 
mens of a beetle {Arthropterus brevis, Westw.) belonging to the 
family Paussidce, captured in the nests of a common Australian 
Ant (Ecatomma metallicum). African species of this family 
commonly occur in such situations, but the exhibitor was unaware 
of any record of this habit in Australian species. 
Messrs. Maiden and Baker exhibited a number of plants and 
photos in illustration of their paper. 
Messrs. Etheridge and Mitchell exhibited a number of Trilobites 
in illustration of their paper. 
Mr. Mitchell exhibited several specimens of Glossopteris from 
Croudace's Hill, near Lambton, Newcastle, showing very apparent 
evidences of what is probably fructification similar to that of an 
A splenium. Some specimens of a like character were collected 
by him from the cliffs on the Old Race Course Beach. Also a 
specimen of what appears to be a Lycopodium, near L. gutbieri, 
Gbpp., or L. macrophyllum, Gold., from the South Bulli Colliery. 
This is the first record of a fossil Lycopod from the New South 
Wales coal-bearing series, 
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