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the assistance of competent persons transmitted to the 
Governor all the necessary informations ^ he -for warded 
to Queensland. 
Mr Y. de Robillard read some notes on a Muraena and 
a Balistes, two species of lisli caught with the line, near 
Fort William. The coasts of Mauritius present several 
very fine species of the Muraenas , some of which are very 
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ferocious and when wounded attack the fishermen. 
The species Balistes found on Barkly Island after the 
cyclone of the 19th March 1875., presents a remarkable 
peculiarity and which Mr Robillard states, never to have 
been observed in any other fish. On each side at about 
one inch and a half, from the commencement of the tail, 
several sharp growths in close connections are observed. 
Other fishes have been also presented to the Society, 
amongst them a small pink coloured fish commonly 
known under the name of Chemise. According to the 
fishermen, those avIio eat of it are doomed to inevitable 
death. 
The Society received with lively satisfaction from Dr 
A. Gunther a very important work on the Land Tortoises 
both living and extinct of Galapagos Islands. 
Mr A. Daruty read a few passages from a letter ad- 
dressed to him by the learned Dr Mobius who was elected 
an Honorary Member of our Society, when he visited 
M auritius. 
Dr Mobius mentions species of an arborescent Rldzopod, 
Avhich grows under the stone in the reefs of Grand Port, 
