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SYDNEY Linnean Society of New South Wales, June 28.—Dr. James C. Cox, president, in the chair.—The following papers were read:—Half century of plants new to South Queensland, by the Rev. B. Scortechini. This paper was to some extent a continuation of a previous paper by the same author, and contained the results of further researches on the flora of that part of the country. Among the plants enumerated were many hitherto regarded as strictly tropical, while others had not previously been observed in such warm latitudes.—Contribution to a knowledge of the fishes of New Guinea, by the Hon. William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. This paper gives a list of 120 species of Percoid Fishes collected by Mr. Andrew Goldie at Port Moresby and Cuppa-Cuppa, in New Guinea. They are, with few exceptions, species which have been described by Dr. Bleeker as being found on the northern shores of that island and throughout the Netherlands India Archipelago generally. The new species described are Serranus Goldiei, Serranus magnificus, Genyoroge bidens, Mesoprion rubens, M. parvidens, M. Goldiei, Diagramma Papuense, Lethrinus aurolineatus. The remainder of Mr. Goldie's collection is to form the subject of a future paper.—A monograph of the Australian Aphroditacean annelids, by Mr. W. A. Haswell.—Two parers were read by Mr. E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S., Curator of the Australian Museum, one containing a description of a new species of Phlogænas (P. Salamonis) and of a new species of Dicrurus (proposed to be called D. longirostris) from the Solomon Islands; the other containing a description of a new species of Coris from Lord Howes' Island.—Prof. W. J. Stephens exhibited a few specimens of a lost Eucalyptus which had been lately re-discovered by his brother, Mr, T. Stephens, in the immediate neighbourhood of Hobart. He stated that the plant (Eucalyptus cordata) had only once been seen by botanists since the expedition of d'Entrecasteaux, and then only in two isolated and remote spots.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 26, 519–520 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026519b0
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