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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 
containing leaves of Cinnamomum Leichhardtii, Ett., all from the 
Warrumbungle Mts. 
Mr. Steel exhibited (1) a nodule popularly but erroneously 
supposed to be of meteoric origin, from the MacDonnell Ranges : 
(2) a large Crustacean (Ibacus peronii) caught at Pyrmont: and 
(3) a specimen of growing sugar cane forwarded from the Clar- 
ence River by Mr. W. J. Freeman, attacked by Termites; the 
soft interior of the cane was scooped out, and then filled with a 
brown deposit; the results of a chemical analysis of the latter 
were submitted for comparison with those of an analysis of a 
fresh sample of the deposit from an ordinary Termite nest. 
Mr. North called attention to the numbers of dead specimens 
of Mutton Birds ( Nectris brevicaudus ), near Sydney, washed up 
on the beaches during the past fortnight, and to which reference 
had been made in recent issues of the "Sydney Morning Herald " 
by Mr. Cavendish Liardet and Mr. Woolcot-Waley. In company 
with the former gentleman Mr. North visited the beach at Bondi 
on the 30th inst., and found hundreds of the bodies of these birds. 
Several fresh specimens were collected in the hope that an exami- 
nation would throw some light on the cause of the unusual 
mortality in this species. Usually it is a rare bird in New 
South Wales waters, and just now has probably been driven from 
the south, where it is abundant, by severe gales. Mr. Brazier had 
recorded at a meeting of this Society in December, 1880, a simi- 
lar instance of mortality among several species of sea birds 
(Proceedings, Vol. V., p. 637). 
