56 Field Naturalists' Club — Proceedings. \vo\'% 



Nat. 

 XXXVI. 



to a helpful paper on the subject of phosphorescence, by Miss 

 F. Bage, M.Sc, to be found in the ]'ictorian Naturalist for 

 November, 1904 (vol. xxi., p. 93). 



Dr. Macgillivray mentioned that he and Mr. Keartland saw 

 numbers of fireflies in North Queensland. Their light was 

 visible for a distance of at least 300 yards. Their flight was 

 slow, and there were many thousands in one swarm which was 

 observed. He also referred to the bacterial phosphorescence 

 so often noticed by voyagers in the tropics, although the 

 phenomenon is by no means confined to the Torrid Zone. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. G. A. Keartland. — Specimen of an old male Grey- 

 backed Goshawk, Astur darns, which had lost the barred mark- 

 ings on the breast, shot at Kew. 



By Miss G. Nokes. — Specimen of branching red coral, Coral- 

 linm ruhriim (?). 



By Mr. C. L. Plumridge.— Fronds of Valley Tree-fern, Dick- 

 sonia antarctica, showing abnormal growth, in illustration of 

 note ; spider, Arachnura higginsi, L. Koch, with shelter, taken 

 at Kew. 



By Mr. J. Searle. — Specimens under microscope, in illustration 

 of paper. 



EXHIBITS AT JUNE MEETING. 



(Continued from p. 48.) 



By Mr. J. Carter. — Swan-neck moss and insect preparations 

 (under microscope). 



By Mr. J. Cronin. — Growing Victorian ferns in pots, from 

 Melbourne Botanic Gardens, also branches of Lilly-Pilly and 

 leaves of Cabbage Palm for decoration of hall. 



By Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S. — Under microscope, a scries of 

 extra large rock sections prepared to show structure, including 

 Oolitic limestone from Clifton, England ; contorted gneissose 

 structure from Alaska, &c. Fossils from elevated beach deposits 

 and the tertiaries of Ooldea Well, Trans- Australian railwa3^ 

 collected by Mr. L. Chandler, including representatives of the 

 genera Area, Venus (Chione), Pecten, Pinna, Mytilus, Fusus, 

 and Bulla. 



By Mr. H. Chnton. — Bird parasites, &c. (under microscope). 



By Mr. C. E. Cole. — Australian Coleoptera. 



By Mr. C. Daley, M.x^. — Minerals found in conjunction with 

 gold in Victoria, also quartz crystals and various varieties of 

 quartz. 



By Mr. J. E. Dixon. — Victorian Coleoptera — families Tene- 

 brionidae and Curculionidae. 



By Mr. C. French, on behalf of Science Branch, Department of 



