2. Mr. Hamilton exhibited a number of specimens from Te Haroto. A large number of fossils and mineralogical specimens from Mr. John Stewart of Takapau. Also two sheets of a very beautiful crested variety of Polypodium pustulatum, which were found by him near Petane. Mr. Hamilton also exhibited some specimens forming part of an old herbarium, many of which had been gathered more than 100 years. He also exhibited
fragments of moa bone, and the greater part of a moa's egg which ha had found, together with the femur of a Notornis in a tertiary deposit on an island at the mouth of the Petane River.
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Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 17, 1884, Unnumbered Page
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