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tralia, and hoped to be able to send over a fair sample of the 

 flora of that State, as he had written enthusiastically con- 

 cerning it. The assistance of the Microscopical Society would 

 materially help towards success. 



An animated discussion took place concerning the time for 

 the sale of floral c.xliibits at the show. Miss Nethercote desired 

 to have the selling begun before the visiti^rs wearied and 

 dropped out. She suggested 8.45 p.m. as the time. Miss 

 Rollo suggested that the flower exhibits be sold all the time, 

 but that no exhibit so sold be; removed l^efore q o'clock. 



On a motion by Mr. C. J. (iabriel, seconded by Mr. Daley, 

 F.L.S., it was decided to alter the time of selling from 9.30 

 to 9 o'clock. 



REMARKS OX EXHIBITS. 



Mr. A. L. Scott described for the uninitiated the meaning of 

 polari^^ed light and cross nicols in connection with his exhibit 

 of zeolites. 



Mr. Audas referred to a previous record of Haloragis rubra, 

 the late Charles Walter having noted it for the Wimmera 

 district in 1905, and stated that the species is endemic to Vic- 

 toria. 



Mr. P. Crosbie Morrison remarked, in connection with his 

 exhibit of water-beetles, that Professor Sir Baldwin Spencer 

 had raised a question relating to the migratory habits among 

 lower forms of life. He wished to record that at about the 

 beginning of last February he came upon a tremendous crowd 

 of water-beetles, composed of two distinct species, one 

 belonging to the Dytiscid^e and the other to the Gyrenidje. 

 They covered the whole surface of the river for a quarter of 

 a mile, and the whole mass apparently was moving up-stream. 



PAPER READ. 



By Mr. F. Erasmus Wilson, entitled " An Ornithological 

 Trip to the Nhill District." 



The author gave an interesting account o[ bird-life in the 

 Nhill district, in the southern part of the Mallee, some 240 miles 

 north-west of Melbourne, where a large number of characteristic 

 birds of the district were met with. 



The president congratulated the author <in having read 

 an informative and interesting paper. When the National 

 Park question had been settled and the Brisbane Ranges 

 scheme launched, the time would have arrived for the reserva- 

 tion of a Mallee sanctuary, since there were forms of animal 

 and plant life there which would not survive transference to 

 Wilson's Promontory. 



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