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the demand for it — c.^., Thryptomene, Grevilleas; Lhotzkya, 

 Sprengelia, and Boronias. Recently in the " Nature Notes " 

 of the Argus it was mentioned that on a children's excursion 

 from northwards to the Grampians 400 packets of Thryptomene 

 had been sent away. It is not uncommon in spring to see 

 bunch after bunch of the fragrant Hairy Boronia, B. pilosa, 

 in which every spray has been pulled up by the root, not perhaps 

 intentionally, but, as the species only grows in moist, loose 

 soil, the plant is readily detachable on being plucked. Large 

 quantities of flowers are daily picked, to be as idly cast aside. 



It would be a great pity if, as is not improbable, some of 

 the distinctive plants of this great garden of Nature's floral 

 bounty should in course of time, through the thoughtlessness 

 of those to whose pleasure they minister, become extinct or 

 unattainable in the accessible areas of the district. 



[The paper was illustrated by a large series of dried specimens, 

 photographs, &c. — ^Ed. Vict. Nat.] 



" Austral Avian Record." — The December number of this 

 journal (vol. iii.. No. 7) is devoted to biographical notes, with por- 

 traits, of three well-known Australian ornithologists, viz., Samuel 

 Albert White (S.A.), Thomas Carter (W.A.), and William David 

 Kerr Macgillivray (Vict, and N.S.W.) The first-named. Captain 

 White, has been an ardent worker in Australian ornithology, 

 principally in the drier parts of the continent, and his writings 

 in The Emu and other publications have always been of the 

 greatest interest. Mr. Thomas Carter, who for a time was a 

 member of the F.N.C., has been associated with the bird Hfe of 

 the country round North-West Cape, W.A., another dry part of 

 the continent. He contributed one paper to the Victorian 

 Naturalist, but most of his work has appeared in the Yorkshire 

 Naturalist (his native county) and The Emu. The third of the 

 trio, Dr. W. Macgillivray, of Broken Hill, is known to many 

 members of the F.N.C., and was present at a recent meeting on 

 his return from the Great War. Like the others, he came of a 

 family known as lovers of natural history. He first displayed 

 his bent in the " Gulf country " of Queensland. During his 

 school days in Melbourne he did a considerable amount of 

 collecting, and in June, 1887, became a member of the F.N.C., 

 to which he has remained faithful ever since. He has been a 

 resident of Broken Hill for the last twenty years, and has done 

 good work in that district. In 1913, accompanied by Mr. J. A.- 

 Kershaw, F.E.S., he made an extended visit to North Queens- 

 land, the results of which were published in the Naturalist by- 

 Mr. Kershaw (vol. xxi., December, 1914). He has contributed 

 articles both to the Naturalist and The Emu, but owing to his 

 busy hfe has not been able to put many of his accumulated 

 notes into print. 



