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SYDNEY Linnean Society of New South Wales, July 26.—The following papers were read:—Botanical notes in Queensland, Part 3, by the Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, F G.S. This paper contained the results of the author's observations on the Mulgrave River, with a list of the species collected by him in that district.—On the forage plants indigenous to New South Wales, by Dr. Woolls, F.L.S.—Description of three new fishes of Queensland, by Chas. W. De Vis, B.A. The species described by Mr. De Vis are:—1. Oligorus Goliath, taken in Moreton Bay, a fish of gigantic size, seven feet long, and two feet high. 2. Synaptura Fitzroienis from Rockhampton; and 3. Engraulis Carpentariæ:, from the Norman River.—4. Description of a species of Squill, Lysiosquilla Mitrsii, from Moreton Bay, by Chas. W. De Vis, B.A. This Crustacean, which is found in Moreton Bay, differs materially, according to Mr. De Vis, from the two species of the same genus recorded in Mr. Haswell's Catalogue, which belong to Mr. Mirs' second section of the genus, while the present species agrees with his fir?t section.—On Cypræa citrina Gray, from Rowley Shoals, North West Australia, by John Brazier. C.M.Z.S.—On a variety of Ovulum depressum, from the Loyalty Islands, by Mr. R. C. Rossiter.—Notes on the nidification of the spoon-bill, the heron, and the night-heron, by Mr. K. H. Bennett.