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higher when late in life he led in many directions the way, by 

 adopting a great hygienic principle, emanating empirically in 

 Britain precisely loo years ago, with strict scientific application 

 and with unequalled exactitude, to subduing maladies, which might 

 decimate the human population and threatened to deprive it of a 

 chief share of its sustenance. To such a man the triumphs of 

 his achievements are his greatest rewards ! But his compatriots 

 remain not unmindful in recognizing the worldly blessings con- 

 ferred. It seems out of place to draw into this public eulogy 

 individual feelings of my own, yet emotions of gratitude, 

 especially at this moment of sadness, do prompt me to allude to 

 a gracious act of Pasteur's scientific influence, of which I must 

 remain ever conscious and proud. It signalizes the sense of 

 such a hero in science, when, as a last wish, he desired his worldly 

 rest within the precincts of his own institution, when his tomb 

 could have been in the Pantheon — the Westminster Abbey of 

 the French — while the significant fact that the President of the 

 Republic followed as a national mourner the remains to their last 

 resting-place. 



EXHIBITS. 



The following were the principal exhibits of the evening : — By 

 Miss Cochrane. — Wild flowers from Ringwood and Sandringham ; 

 also, paintings of Victorian orchids. By Mr. J. Gabriel. — Wild 

 flowers from Western Australia, including Anigozanthus Manglesii 

 (Kangaroo Paw). By Mr. R. Hall. — Skins of Spotted Rail, from 

 Box Hill, and White-breasted Swallow, from Swan Hill. By 

 Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M.G. — A new Psoralea, dis- 

 covered by Mr. W. B. Walkington at Frew's Creek, with larger 

 flowers than any of its congeners, numbering fully one hundred, 

 from all parts of the world ; very minute specimens of Plantago 

 coro7iopus, variety Husseyana, found by Miss Hussey near 

 Encounter Bay : from the weight of a number of dried specimens, 

 with flowers, roots, &c., it is estimated that it would take 5,280 

 to make up half an ounce, the weight of an ordinary letter ; such 

 a minute form is never produced in the British home of the 

 species, where a single specimen will average ^ oz., our winter- 

 less climate causing it to appear as an early spring plant ; Pimelea 

 Husseijana, from Encounter Bay ; a Caladenia of the series C 

 Cairnsiana, approaching C. d'datata, found by the Misses Wise 

 near Sale ; also specimens of Glossodia major with double 

 labellum, found near Mt. Alexander by Mr. F. L. Billinghurst, of 

 Castlemaine ; a collection of wild flowers from Sandringham, and 

 local wild flowers on behalf of the Field Ramblers' Club, Castle- 

 maine, Mr. G. Knight, J. P., of Bendigo, Miss Henley, of 

 Beechworth, and Miss May Wise, of Sale. By Mr. G. Sweet, 

 F.G.S. — Types of scales, neural spines, and vertebrtB of Cladocyclus 

 Sioeeti, figured and described by Mr. A. S. Woodward, F.G.B., 



