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Agriculture. — Cabinet drawers of Australian coccids (scale 

 insects), including a number of new specie;, from the Mallee, 

 collected by Mr. J. E. Dixon, and elsewhere ; cabinet drawer of 

 Australian and British butterflies and moths. 



By Mr. J. Gabriel. — Polyzoa, &c., under microscope. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Victorian marine Mollusca, with their 

 egg-capsules. 



By Mr. R. A. Keble. — Morwell brown coal and its distillation 

 products. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher. — Mounted specimens of twelve rare Vic- 

 torian ferns ; collection of Victorian mosses ; and collection of 

 Victorian marine algae. 



By Mr. C. L. Plumridge. — Growing Victorian ferns — viz., 

 Adianimn hispiduhnn, Davallia duhia, and Lomaria fluviatilis. 



By Mr. A. L. Scott. — Rock sections, plain and polarized, under 

 microscope. 



By Mr. J. Searle. — Type specimens of Copepoda, also flower 

 of Riippia maritima (first time exhibited), under microscope. 



By Mr. P. R. H. St. John. — Fruit specimens of GauUheria 

 hispida, R. Br. ; " Wax-cluster or Snowberry," from Mt. Buffalo, 

 collected by Mrs. J. Lang ; also bag made from inner bark of the 

 Red Stringybark, Eucalyptus macrorhyncha, by Mrs. F. Walker, 

 of Ringwood. 



By Mr. J. Stickland. — Vorticella, &c. (under microscope). 



By Dr. Griffith Taylor, F.G.S. — Three new wall maps of Aus- 

 tralia, from the Oxford Press, showing {a) vegetation zones, 

 {h) population, (c) political features ; geological specimens from 

 South Victoria Land, East Antarctica, obtained during igio-13 

 expedition ; kenyte lava from Mount Erebus, showing large fel- 

 spars, weathered out by frost and wind; basalts from Observation 

 Hill, with curved joints ; striateci dyke rocks from Granite 

 Harbour ; weathered beacon sandstone from Mount Svess. 



By Mr. L. Thorn. — Victorian butterflies, collected at Wandin 

 and FeYntree Gully. 



By Mr. J. Twyford. — Examples of the Brownian movement 

 (under microscope). 



By Mr. H. B. Williamson. — Collection of dried plants made by 

 scholars of Hawkesdale school. 



By Mr. J. Wilcox. — Melicerta ringeiis, &c. (under microscope). 



; After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



Victorian Fisheries. — The report by the Royal Commission 

 appointed to inquire into the fishing industry has just been pre- 

 sented to Parliament. One of the principal decisions arrived at 

 is that properly organized biological research must take the place 

 of guesswork in ascertaining the life-histories of our food fishes. 



