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Baron, so there could be no doubt as to the identity of the 

 plants. He showed that the native name, generally composed 

 of several syllables, usually relied upon some characteristic 

 of the plant, or to the uses to which it might be put, for its 

 composition, and it was singular that often the same charac- 

 teristics had been chosen by botanists when bestowing the 

 specific names by which they are known. 



The chairman said the paper had broken new ground. The 

 subject was a very difficult one, and, he hoped, would encourage 

 others to put on record observations of a similar character. 



Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., congratulated the author on having 

 begun a very important investigation. The diversity of tribal 

 dialects made it undesirable to give aboriginal names to plants 

 other than those species which were restricted in their habitat 

 to the district in which the name was used. He regretted 

 the authorities were allowing the aboriginals at Coranderrk 

 and other stations to forget their own language, while the 

 faulty phonetic rendering of the native language by different 

 authorities made the task the author had set himself extremely 

 difficult. 



2. By Mr. T. S. Hart, M.A., B.C.E., entitled " Notes on the 

 Distribution of the Eucalypts about Creswick and Clunes." 



The author described, firstly, the geographical and cHmatic 

 features of the district, and then dealt with the soil characters 

 of the bluestone, bedrock (Silurian), and granitic areas, and 

 the distribution of the eucalypts, of which seventeen species 

 had been recorded. Brief mention was also made of other 

 trees in the area under notice. Suggestions were offered as to 

 the causes determining the situations occupied by the several 

 species, and comparisons made with his own observations and 

 the records of others elsewhere, especially with occurrences 

 in familiar locahties near Melbourne. 



Owing to the lateness of the hour the remarks on the paper 

 had to be curtailed. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. C. Daley, F.L.S. — Teeth and eggs of Queensland 

 Crocodile, Crocodilus porostis, from Alligator Creek, North 

 Queensland. The eggs formed portion of a nest of about eighty. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Specimens of Teredo bipennata, Tnrton, 

 in a piece of oregon timber from Port Adelaide. 



By Mr. T. S. Hart, M.A., B.C.E. — Specimens of Eucalyptus 

 consideniana, from near Clunes. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher. — Flowering specimens of Conea speciosa, 

 C. speciosa (red variety), and C. alba, also of Acacia discolor, 

 Willd., Sunshine Wattle, from plants growing in Melbourne 

 Botanic Gardens. 



By Mr. J. Searle. — Stages in the life-history of Obelia, a 

 hydroid zoophyte. 



