Vol. II. 

 1902 



J About Members. 1 23 



Highnesses from the Council of the Australasian Ornithologists' 

 Union. I am also directed to express to you the thanks of the 

 Princess of Wales for the photograph taken on the occasion of 

 Her Royal Highness's visit to Fernshavv." 



On the afternoon of I5tli July His Excellency Lord Tennyson 

 and suite visited " Holmfirth," South Australia, the estate of 

 Mr. J. F. Mellor, for the purpose of inspecting the birds, other 

 pets, &c., of the family. Lord Tennyson expressed his keen 

 appreciation of the way the native birds were cared for and 

 protected. Mrs. Mellor's unique collection and Mr. J. W. 

 Mellor's well-filled oological cabinets also came under His 

 Excellency's observation, and the way he compared the eggs of 

 certain Australian birds with those of the old country showed 

 that His Excellency was quite conversant with European 

 ornithology. 



Sir Samuel Way was sworn in as Acting-Governor of South 

 Australia on the 17th July. 



A Tasmanian member (who wishes his name withheld) has 

 subscribed £\ to the Coloured Figure Fund. 



Mr. H. E. Hill, of the Field Naturalists' Club, Geelong, and 

 Hon. Curator of the Museum in connection with the Gordon 

 Technical College, has been appointed Assistant at the Guildford 

 Grammar School, Western Australia. Mr. Hill has compiled 

 some field observations, extending over many years, of the birds 

 of the Geelong district, which will appear in TJie Evui in due 

 course. 



That Americans are wise in their generation has an additional 

 proof in the fact that they afford facilities in some States to the 

 young to study natural history, and have chosen an admirable 

 means of imparting instruction. A letter was recently received 

 by Mr. A. J. Campbell from Mr. F. M. Chapman, Associate 

 Curator of the American Museum of Natural History, forward- 

 ing a request from Professor A. S. Bickmore, of the State 

 Department of Public Instruction, for copies of a number of the 

 original negatives used in his (Mr. Campbell's) work — " Nests 

 and Eggs." These are required for the purpose of making 

 " lantern slide illustrations to be used in connection with nature 

 study in the State of New York." 



Members will regret to learn of the death of Mr. Charles G. 

 A. Winnecke, F.R.G.S., the well-known surveyor and explorer, 

 who had charge of the Horn scientific expedition to Central 

 Australia in 1894. He died in Adelaide on the loth September 

 last, at the young and useful age of 44. Mr. Winnecke took 

 part and a keen interest in the first Congress of the Union, held 

 in Adelaide last year. 



