MICROSCOPICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SECTION. 
February 1st, 1869. 
J. B. Dancer, F.R.A.S., President of the Section, in the 
Chair. 
Dr. Alcock exhibited some objects from Australia, lent 
to him for the purpose by the Lower Mosley Street Natural 
History Society. They were presented to that Society by 
Mr. Albert Me. Donald, of Pioneer’s Rest, on the River 
Mary, Queensland, and consisted of the skull of a native 
Australian, and a stone tomahawk which had been found 
in the ground by a neighbour of his, and at Mr. Me. Donald’s 
request it had been furnished with a proper native handle 
by one of the blacks. It was a very interesting specimen, 
as genuine implements of this kind are now very rare in 
the country, the use of iron having quite superseded them. 
He also exhibited some of the ordinary weapons of the 
natives, a shield made of very light wood and painted by a 
native artist, two war clubs or nulla-nullas (aboriginal name 
koo thaar), and some boomerangs. He read a few interest- 
ing particulars relating to the objects from Mr. Me. Donald’s 
letters. 
Mr. G-. E. Hunt read a paper entitled “ Notes of the Rarer 
Mosses of Perthshire and Braemar,” of which the following 
is an abstract. 
Three alpine regions in Scotland stand pre-eminent for 
the variety of their cryptogamic flora; 1st, Ben Lawers in 
