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selaginoides, A laxifolia, A cupressoides, Microcachrys tetragona, Pheros- 
phera Hookeriana, Callitris Australis, Phyllocladus asplentifolia, Podo- 
carpus alpina. : 
Mr. Kilburn submitted for inspection some most satisfactory results of 
trials which he is now making to obtain photographic pictures of public 
buildings, with landscapes, &c., by the Talbotype process. | 
Mr. Davies drew attention to the fact that great quantities of fish have 
of late been cast up at various points on the East Coast, killed, as has been 
reported, by a species of Fungus attacking and spreading round their gills ; 
and also that immense masses of shrimps have recently been thrown up on 
the sea-shore near Swansea. Sir W. Denison observed that such pheno- 
mena were common during volcanic eruptions, and that certain striking 
irregularities noticed in the tides here a few months ago would lead to the 
belief that some great sub-marine commotion might be going on in our 
neighbourhood, a surmise strengthened by the contemporaneous occurrence 
of earthquake shocks at New Zealand. ; 
Mr. Dayies bore testimony to the accuracy of the report of a singularly 
sudden rise and recession of tide made to the Society a few aA back 
by Dr. Edward Bedford, he having been on the spot at New Town at the 
time, and observed the fact. / j 
Mr. Lochner confirmed the accuracy of the report made to the Society 
of the extraordinary rise and sudden recession of the tide at Port Arthur, 
about the Ist of January last. 
Mr. W. Archer submitted for examination, and explained at some length, 
a series of drawings made by him of certain galls or tuberosities, with tur- 
ret-like processes, upon twigs of the Casuarina quadrivalvis, daid before 
the Society a few months since by Dr. Officer, and of the insect con- 
tained, and promised to supply a description in writing for the next 
monthly meeting. 
_ Mr. cee ie attention to a small brown speck observable on the 
surface of Oranges brought here from Sydney this season, and to the fact 
that under each of these brown fungus-like scales he had found a minute 
living insect, little more than one-hundredth of an inch in diameter, ; 
Mr. Archer also laid on the table a curiously convoluted and fantastic 
growth of a shoot of Casuarina for inspection. . 4 
A case of stuffed birds from the Himalaya ranges in India, together with 
skins of the Jackall, Canis aureus—a small feline animal, like the Garan- 
gan Herpestes Javanicus, with the head of a male of the Musk Deer, 
Moschus moschiferus, and skins of various species of squirrels lately 
urchased by the Society,—were open for inspection. 
- Some peace nueeeri succeeded, when it was moved by elbeenh 
Hone, Esq., and carried unanimously, “ That the thanks of the Society 
he rendered to the various persons who haye made donations.” ind 
His Excellency the President left the chair a little after nine o’clock, 
and by half-past the members had dispersed. 
