1 62 Field Naturalists' Club — Proceedings. [voi^^xxxvi. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Mr. J. Gabriel referred to the action which he had initiated 

 some time ago towards getting rid of foxes on PhilHp Island, 

 The foxes, for which the Fisheries and Game Department and 

 the Shire Council had each offered ten shillings per head, were 

 again destroying large numbers of Mutton-birds. Notwith- 

 standing the premium and the value of the skins, he understood 

 that only ten foxes had been paid for. 



Mr. C. J. Gabriel stated that not only Mutton-birds, but 

 Black Swans and Ducks, were now being attacked. The two 

 punctures on the heads of the dead birds were always present, 

 and these denoted the teeth marks of the fox. Local hunters 

 do not think the amount paid, plus the amount received for 

 the skins, sufficient recompense for the trouble and expense in- 

 volved, and suggestions have been made to ask for an increase 

 of the amount. He moved that the Club ask the Fisheries 

 Department to give a greater bonus for killing the foxes. 



Mr. D. Best asked if any diminution in the number of 

 arrivals of birds was noticed on arrival day. 



Mr. J. Gabriel replied that the arrivals were very much 

 diminished in the last few years, and that birds- were not 

 found in half the holes. He seconded the motion, which was 

 'then carried. 



REMARKS ON EXHIBITS. 



Mr. H. B. Williamson exhibited a specimen of the plant, the 

 Woolly Water Lily, Philhydrum lamiginosiim, Banks, collected 

 by Mr. T. S. Hart, M.A., at Bairnsdale. This was reported 

 as a new locality, the plant having been previously collected 

 in Victoria only at the Grampians. 



Mr. E. Cox referred to his exhibit of diseased " fry," col- 

 lected at Lake Nagambie. He read a letter from the Fisheries 

 and Game Department, which showed that each nodule in the 

 dead fish contained an egg, which was, possibly, that of a 

 parasitic worm. All the fish affected belonged to one species, 

 probably a Galaxias. Small specimens of Cod and Perch 

 showed no sign of infection. 



Mr. C. Gabriel showed a collection of twenty species of 

 Chiton shells, recently collected at Portland, remarking that 

 that district was extremely rich in the genus. 



Mr. C. Daly, B.A., referred to his exhibit of Agates from 

 Anthony's Lagoon, Northern Territory, the locality where Sir 

 Ross Smith was compelled to land with his aeroplane. 



PAPERS READ. 



By Mr. A. J. Shearsby, F.R.M.S. (communicated by Mr. F. 

 Chapman, A.L.S.), entitled " Notes on the Occurrence of Recent 

 Travertin Formations near Yass, N.S.W." 



