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tioned that he had seen a rather rare butterfly, the Lesser 

 Wanderer, Danaida chrysippus petilia, Stoll, flying in the main 

 street in Kew a few days previously. This also had not been 

 recorded for Melbourne in December. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Messrs. C. Daley, F.L.S., and F. Pitcher.— Specimens of 

 Cryptostylis longifolia, R. Br., Long-leaved Duck Orchid ; 

 Microtis porrifolia, R. Br., Leek Microtis ; Thysanotus tuberosus, 

 R. Br., Bulbous Fringe-Lily, also white form of same ; and 

 Drosera binata, Labill., collected on Beaconsfield excursion, 

 9th December. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Marine shells, Chione disjecta. Perry 

 (in series), from Victoria, and CyprcBU cervus, Linn., adult and 

 juvenile, from Gulf of Mexico. 



By Mr. D. J. Paton. — Wild-flowers from Bendigo, including 

 Eriostemon Crowei (new for district), E. deformis, Brachyloma 

 daphnoides, Pultenaa laxiflora, Melaleuca incrassata. Eucalyptus 

 frutisicorum (Mallee), and Helichrysum obcordatum. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher. — Flowering branches of Elceocarpus 

 cyaneus, Aiton, Blue Olive-berry, Victoria, New South Wales, 

 Queensland, and Tasmania, grown at Melbourne Botanic 

 Gardens ; moths from Beaconsfield, on behalf of Mrs. C. M. Drake. 



By Mr. C. Plumridge. — Flowering branches of Elceocarpus 

 cyaneus. Blue Olive-berry, grown at Kew. 



By Mr. P. R. H. St. John. — Herbarium specimens of 

 Clematis glycinoides, De C, collected at Yarra Junction, 2nd 

 December, 1916, probably first specimen recorded from within 

 fifty miles of Melbourne ; and a filmy fern, Trichomanes par- 

 vulum, Poiret, Small Bristle Fern, collected at Emerald, 30th 

 November, and Yarra Jimction 2nd December, not previously 

 recorded for Victoria. 



By Mr. A. L. ^cott. — Aboriginal stone axe or tomahawk 

 heads — one of a green stone (diorite ?) from Roseneath, near 

 Casterton ; the other, probably Victorian, apparently of basalt ; 

 also basalt from Corporation quarry, Brunswick. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



A Veteran Naturalist.— By the death last month of Dr. E. 

 P. Ramsay, of Sydney, at the age of 74, the Field Naturalists' 

 Club has lost another of its honorary members. Dr. Ramsay 

 was best known as Curator for many years of the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney, and his "Tabular List of Australian Birds" 

 was long the standard index for Australian ornithologists. He 

 was a good all-round naturalist ; besides being a leading 

 ornithologist, he had a good knowledge of botany and 

 entomology. 



