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question, and Ridgway's bankruptcy, and enclosing state- 
ment of the Society's funds in his hands. Ordered to be 
taken for notification. 
A letter was read from the Government Secretary, 
dated 25th 0£lober, forwarding a request from the Royal 
Scottish Geographical Society to be supplied with official 
documents in regard to the colony for publication in the 
monthly magazine of the Society. 
It was ordered that the Society be placed on the 
Timehri free list, in exchange for its monthly magazine, 
and it was suggested that the Government might forward 
a copy of the colonial blue-book, 
A notification received from the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion of the death of Dr. Spencer Fullerton Baird, late 
Secretary of the Institution and Director of the U.S. 
National Museum, was ordered to be acknowledged, and 
the condolences of the Society communicated. 
The following presentations were acknowledged with 
thanks : from Mr. G. H. Hawtayne, C.M.G., 3 parts of the 
" Forest Flora of South Australia", with illustrative 
plates ; from Mr. Stewart Culin, 929, Clinton St., 
Philadelphia, ic China in America," Chinese social life 
in the Eastern States. 
Mr. J. J. Quelch, the Curator, exhibited the following 
recent additions to the Museum, and gave explanatory 
remarks on them ; — 
1. A specimen of the Gecko or wood-slave (Platydactylus rapicauda) t 
from Georgetown, presented by Mr. F. White. 
2. Young specimens of Labarrias, born in the Museum. 
3. A Chalcis Lizard (Chalcis flavescens) shewing a nearly serpentiform 
body with four minute limbs'; from the Puruni, presented by Mr. C. A. 
Lloyd. 
4. The tail of the Labarria, shewing the horny spine attached to the 
tail— similar to that in the bushmaster. 
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