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Elephant. Naturally the local gardens came in for comparison, 

 and it was declared that "nowhere was evidence given of more 

 attention to the rational housing and the comfort of the animals'' 

 than is visible in the Melbourne collection. 



EXHIBITION OF SPECIMENS. 



At the close of the meeting, the chairman announced that Mr. 

 C. French had obtained a supply of the Diamond Beetle 

 (Entimus imperialis) from Brazil. The splendid lustre of this 

 beetle is due to minute brilliant scales, which are objects of great 

 beauty when specially mounted for the microscope. Specimens 

 for mounting will be distributed at the next meeting of the Club. 

 The meeting terminated with the usual exhibition of specimens, 

 of which the following is a list : — By Messrs. E. Anderson and 

 F. Spry. — Eggs and young lava of Pieris teutonia ; also eggs laid 

 on four different kinds of Capparis. By Mr. A. Coles. — Birds, 

 nest, and eggs of Sacred Halcyon and Superb Warbler. By 

 Department of Agriculture (Entomological Branch). — Coloured 

 illustrations of life-histories of Victorian insects for the Imperial 

 Institute, London. By Rev. W. Fielder. — Specimens of Infusoria. 

 By Mr. C. French. — Two new Australian longicorn beetles and 

 four exotic Cetoniadse. By Mr. H. F. Hill. — Case of Victorian 

 Lepidoptera. By Mr. G. A. Keartland. — Moloch horridus (Devil 

 Lizard), from Central Australia; Acanthophis antarctica (Deaf 

 Adder), Pseudechys porphyriacus (Black Snake), Hoplocephalus 

 spectabilis (Port Lincoln Snake), Delma impar, and eggs of 

 Hoplocephalus superbus (Copperhead Snake), killed at Baysvvater, 

 9th August, 1892. By Mr. J. N. M'Kibbin. — Fifty species 

 butterflies, two of which have not been obtained in Victoria 

 previously, namely — Xenica ovichora and X. porrea (1889), Mt. 

 Hotham ; also three others, yet unnamed. By Baron von 

 Mueller, K.M.G. — Fungi prapared for the herbarium by G. Her- 

 pell, Germany; and a plant new to science (Velleya salmoniana), 

 from Gascoyne River, W.A., collected by Mrs. M. Forrest. By 

 Mr T. Steel. — Bloom spike of Banksia serrata, from Coogee Bay, 

 Sydney ; and aboriginal stone axe from Harrow, Victoria. 



EXCURSION TO FRANKSTON. 



On the morning of Saturday, 9th of November, two members of 

 the Club (Messrs. D. Best and C. French) put in an appearance 

 on the Princes Bridge railway station en route to Frankston. 

 The morning was most unpleasantly warm, and as the sun gained 

 power the heat became well nigh unsupportable. A start was 

 made at 9.15 a.m. from Melbourne, and at Frankston we were 

 joined by Mr. Hart, who had got into the train at East Brighton. 

 On approaching Frankston a deal of swampy country has to be 

 crossed, acres of reeds (Arundo phragmitis), also bulrushes 



