Nov.,-] 

 1917 J 



Field Naturalists' Club — Proceedings. 95 



flower exhibition held the previous week, and desired to 

 express the Club's thanks to the many members and friends who 

 had contributed time, labour, and exhibits, and so materially 

 assisted in bringing the exhibition to a successful issue. A 

 unanimous vote of thanks was passed to a lengthy list of 

 persons, metropolitan, country, and inter-State, for their very 

 valuable co-operation on the occasion. 



The hon. treasurer, Mr. G. Coghill, read a progress report 

 on the financial result of the exhibition, which was consider- 

 ably in advance of the previous attempt, and would probably 

 amount to about ;^2oo. 



Mr. F. Keep asked if a census of the wild-flowers exhibited 

 had been made. Dr. Sutton replied that, with the limited time 

 available, it was quite impossible to make out a complete list, 

 but an attempt was being made to give a good report of the 

 exhibition in the next Naturalist. 



NOTES ON EXHIBITS. 



Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., called attention to his exhibit of 

 a specimen of a young male of the Red-crowned Fruit-Pigeon, 

 Ptilinopus swainsoni, Gld., which was shot at Mallacoota, south- 

 eastern Victoria, on the 21st August last by Miss E. Dorran, 

 who forwarded it to the National Museum in the flesh. He 

 said that although this species occurs in Queensland and north- 

 eastern New South Wales, and is by no means uncommon on 

 the Richmond and Tweec;! rivers, it does not appear to have 

 been previously recorded south of the Hunter River. He also 

 referred to the recent discovery of the Top-knot Pigeon, Lopho- 

 laimus antarcticus, and the Flinders Cuckoo, Eudynamis cyano- 

 cephala, in the same district, specimens of which were exhibited 

 at the January meeting by Mr. C. Dalej^ F.L.S. 



PAPER READ. 



By Mr. E. E. Pescott, F.L.S. , entitled " Notes on the Repro- 

 duction of Orchids " (first paper). 



The author, by means of a fine series of lantern slides, 

 demonstrated the general appearance of the various parts of 

 the flowers of several Victorian orchids, and pointed out how 

 they might be fertilized by the agency of insects. He said, 

 however, that practically no observations were on record as 

 to what insects effected the fertilization. His experiments 

 with regard to the germination of the seeds had been failures, 

 and he doubted if many of our orchids produced fertile seeds. 

 In his opinion, most of our orchids owed their increase and 

 spread to the production of new tubers. 



Owing to the lateness of the hour, the discussion on the 

 paper was held over till the next meeting. 



