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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 
The President exhibited a number of botanical specimens from 
the Tweed River, including fruiting examples of Ulceocarpus 
grandis, F.v.M., locally known as the Blue Fig or Quandong, an 
interesting slender variety of Pteris tremula, Aspidium tenerum, 
Adiantum cethiojoicum, and other ferns at present undetermined. 
Also Gleichenia dichotomy Hk., from the Hawkesbury River; 
cones of Sequoia gigantea; and an undetermined Banksia which 
needs investigation. 
Mr. Froggatt exhibited his collection of Sydney Cicadas. 
Mr. Steel showed a Gecko ( Gehyra vorax, Gir.) from the Rewa 
River, Fiji. He also remarked that the animal when alive is 
extremely flaccid, as if it had no bones; it is also apparently to 
some extent vegetarian in its diet, portions of leaves of the sugar 
cane as well as of an undetermined plant having been found in 
the stomach of a specimen dissected. 
Mr. Fletcher showed some English humble bees, the defunct 
portion of a consignment from New Zealand recently brought over 
by the Department of Agriculture in the hope of the successful 
acclimatisation of the insects. Of the survivors some were 
liberated in the Botanic Gardens, and some in the Society's 
garden. As the bees were set free just after the first of the 
recent rains, they should have a fair chance of doing well; and 
any information about their subsequent movements and operations 
would be welcome. 
