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work, and he expressed the hope that it would be of value to all 

 those who were anxious to obtain experience of the practical side 

 of a naturalist's work. 



EXHIBITION OF SPECIMENS. 



The meeting terminated with the usual exhibition of specimens, 

 of which the following is a list : — By Miss Cochrane. — Gall on 

 acacia and enormous growth of daphne. Mr. C. F. Duncan. — 

 Four species and two varieties of ferns (Adiantum). Mr. F. J. 

 Ellemor. — Artamus sordidus (Wood Swallow), male ; Cinclosoma 

 punctatum (Spotted Ground Thrush); Pomatostomus superciliosus 

 (White-eyebrowed Pomatostomus), pair ; Manorhina melanophrys 

 (Bell Bird), pair; Podiceps novce-hollandice (Black-throated Grebe), 

 female. By C French, jun. — Remarkable eggs of Mountain 

 Thrush. The two eggs were taken out of the same nest; the smaller 

 egg of the two is only about one-third of the size of the typical 

 eggs, and has a large brown blotch on the larger end ; collected 

 near Dandenong Ranges, 6th August, 1892. Rev. E. H. Hennell. 

 — Nemertine eggs from Ferntree Gully. Mr. G. F. Hill. — Case 

 of beetles and pair of grasshoppers (Cape Colony). Mr. G. A. 

 Keartland. — Eggs of White-bellied Sea Eagle (King Island). Mr. 

 J. A. Kershaw.— Serpula (Port Phillip). Mr. D. Le Souef.— 

 Eggs of Topknot Pigeon and Channel Bill (first authentic speci- 

 mens taken from a nest). Mrs. W. Martin. — " The Fungi of 

 Australia," by Dr. M. C. Cooke; "One Hundred and Ninety 

 Lithograms of Ferns of Queensland," by Mr. F. M. Bailey. 

 Baron von Mueller. — Plants new to science — viz., Eremophila 

 phillipsii and E. merralli, from Swan River, W.A., collected by 

 Edwin Merrall ; also Goodenia forrestii, collected at Yale and 

 Sherlock Rivers, by Hon. Sir John Forrest. Professor W. B 

 Spencer. — Honey Ants (Western Australia). Mr. F. Spry. — A 

 case of butterflies, genus Papilio (North Queensland and India). 

 Miss Turner. — Living specimens of Nitella. 



That indefatigable orchid hunter, Mr. J. N. M'Kibbin, has 

 made an interesting find at Sandringham. A common blue orchid 

 of that district is Caladenia deformis (R. Brown). Mr. M'Kibbin 

 has met with a single specimen of C. coeridea of the same authority. 

 C. ccerulea is found in abundance near Maryborough, but has not 

 been met with near Melbourne before. On a superficial glance 

 the plants might easily be confused ; but C. ccerulea constantly 

 differs from C. deformis in possessing a dark red (not green) 

 flowering stem, in the basal leaf being much shorter than the 

 stem, in the stem leaf being bract-like, and in the labellum being 

 trifid (not entire), the middle lobe white and yellow, while in 

 C. deformis the labellum is completely blue. 



